Entries tagged with “nono157/”

FSIS to Declare "The Big Six" Non-O157 STECs Adulterants

Last year, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was petitioned to declare six additional disease-causing and potentially life-threatening strains of E. coli, those...

Back to Square One on Non-O157 STECs

A little over a month ago, on June 3, 2011, Deputy Director Donald Kraemer of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food...

Food Safety Advocates Call for Testing of Non-O157 Strains of E. coli

The AP is carrying the story today of efforts of food safety advocates, including us here at Marler Clark, to push the USDA to include...

Help wanted: time for government to act on food safety

Circumstances have long been ripe for calling all shiga-toxin producing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) “adulterants” in our food supply. The USDA’s Food Safety...

NY Senator Gillibrand to Secretary Vilsack: high time to regulate non-O157 E. coli

Is it mere coincidence that the Marler Clark firm's petition to FSIS asking it to declare non-O157 strains of E. coli as adulterants in meat...

Risk Posed by Non-O157 E. coli Greater Than Recognized

According to the results of a study recently published by the CDC, the incidence of dangerous and under-reported non-O157 E. coli infection is on the...
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