A USDA public meeting today in Washington, D.C., will focus on how to quickly identify suppliers of source material in products testing positive for E. coli O157:H7.
Such tracing difficulties have created a huge gap in food safety and participants in today’s meeting have a very…
Years of ground beef E. coli outbreaks will be put in new light today by a slaughterhouse veterinarian’s testimony that supervisors shelved citations written by front-line government safety personnel for dangerous and cruel practices.
The vet says writers of citations were threatened with transfers. It is…
Dana Boner lost her 14-year-old daughter to E. coli O111 in 2007.
Now she is a member of Chicago-based S.T.O.P.-Safe Tables Our Priority, which is renewing its plea to the USDA to declare disease-causing E. coli types other than E. coli O157:H7 as adulterants in beef and …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates about 73,480 people are infected each year with E. coli O157:H7, resulting in 600 deaths. Contaminated beef is a leading source of these illnesses and the chronic nature of beef E. coli outbreaks…
The third beef E. coli recall of 2010 hails from West Missouri Beef of Rockville, Missouri.
The West Missouri beef recall applies to 14,000 pounds of fresh boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food…
Health officials in southeastern Wisconsin said a cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses, including three cases of E. coli O157:H7 in children from the Villiage of Belgium, could have been caused by eating snow or ice.
A press release from the Ozaukee County Health…
State and federal health officials are investigating the scope of E. coli O157:H7 contamination from ground beef products distributed by Adams Farm Slaughterhouse of Athol, Mass.
According to a recall announcement issued Monday night by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, 2,574 pounds of…
A pair of USDA researchers in Ames, Iowa, have applied for patents on two vaccines they developed to curtail the growth of E. coli O157:H7 in cattle.
The research adds to similar efforts in the private sector that are now in use and…
The Resource Conservation District of Monterey County, California, conducted a recent survey showing that 89 percent of farmers in the Central Coast have removed vegetation around fields destroying animal habitat — a development that is linked to E. coli prevention…
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