Raw Milk E coli Debate Churns in Wisconsin

Raw milk supporters arrived by busloads yesterday in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for a legislative hearing on a bill that public health officials say could lead to E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks and deaths by liberalizing trade in unpasteurized mi…

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E. coli in steak

Steak Safety: The Straight Story

E. coli in steak: What you need to know

Is it always safe to eat a steak served rare? Seems like a simple question.

But a Dec. 24 National Steak and Poultry recall of almost 250,000 pounds of blade-tenderized beef forced consumers and health of…

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E. coli outbreak

Steak E. coli Outbreak Investigated by Food Safety Attorneys

Steak E. coli OutbreakNational food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is investigating a possible nationwide E. coli O157:H7 outbreak involving meat injected with tenderizing ingredients and served at large United States restaurant chains.

Lower-quality cu…

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E coli HUS Frequently Asked Questions

For every outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 there is a corresponding number of cases (usually 5 to 15 percent of the total) that develop into a life-threatening complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). What follows is an E. coli HU…

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Research

Fighting HUS E coli by Studying How to Kill it in Cattle

A microbiologist at Washington State University has received a $1 million grant from USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to study if previous research into stopping the bacteria at its source – cattle – may be more effective once different…

 

New Research Exploring Drug-Resistance in E. coli

No one really knows exactly how E. coli O157:H7 and other bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. But new research suggests that low levels of antibiotics might potentially increase the random chance that bacteria might mutate into resistant forms.

The new theory was published in…

 

Battlefront Shifts in Fight Against Beef E coli Outbreaks

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…

 

Bacteria Control Critical in Stopping Bagged Lettuce E. coli

With the latest issue of Consumer Reports confirming that the produce industry is still selling pre-washed, bagged salad greens that contain problematic levels of bacteria, it’s appropriate to review why this will no doubt lead to another outbreak of E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella or…

 

E coli Watch in Bagged Salad Greens Finds Contaminants

A new Consumer Reports test found common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination in pre-washed, bagged salad greens that were purchased before their use-by dates.

The March 2010 issue of the magazine says the relatively small sample –  208 containers representing…

 

Large Scale Vaccine Trial Started to Prevent Beef E coli Outbreaks

Cargill’s beef packing division is in the midst of a large-scale trial of a vaccine in cattle to combat E. coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly human pathogen that continues to cause massive E. coli ground beef recalls and multi-state outbreaks of E. coli infection.

A Cargill spokesman told…

 

Spinach E coli Study Shows Importance of Colder Refrigeration

A very large and deadly spinach E. coli outbreak hit the United States in September 2006 in which 199 people in 26 states were sickened after eating contaminated, bagged spinach grown in San Benito County, California. Four deaths were linked to…

 

E. coli Prevalent in Organic Beef

ecoli-bacteriaBy Kathy Will

A new study released this summer by researchers at Kansas State University found that organic and naturally raised beef cattle are just as prone to E. coli O157:H7 as conventially raised animals.

Writing in the August 2009 issue of…

 

E. coli O157:H7 in Leafy Greens: How Does it Get There?

By Fred Pritzker

It’s relatively easy for the general public to understand the sequence of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak involving ground beef, but scientists are still studying how the pathogen finds its way from the stomachs of cattle and other hooved…

 

Common Garden Microbe Combats E. coli

Geneticist Michael B. Cooley of the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif. has found that the common garden microbe Enterobacter asburiae significantly reduced the quantity of both E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica. Hale seeds were incubated with E. asburiae and…