USA Today reports that for starters, the problem has been accelerated by the American appetite for fruits and vegetables — much of it raw as the market grows for packaged fresh greens.
Americans ate 10 times more spinach in 2005 than in 1970, with much of the growth in ready-to-eat bagged spinach and baby spinach
An article by NBC Miami reminds consumers that when women are pregnant, their risk of developing foodborne illness increases and even a mild case of food poisoning can have serious consequences. Protect yourself and your unborn infant from foodborne illness by practicing good food safety habits.
Pregnant women should take special precautions when shopping for
Barbara Anderson of the Fresno Bee reports that consumers worried about contaminated spinach and lettuce from California’s Salinas Valley may have a threat closer to home: bacteria breeding in their kitchen sink.
We live in a germ-filled world. Millions of microbes live in kitchens, setting up house on kitchen counters, cutting boards, stove tops and
The San Diego Union-Tribune today published an article on why the food pyramid isn’t as great as we were all taught:
"Forget the “Food Pyramid,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines for a healthy diet. Today, a terrifying roster of impurities – E. coli! salmonella! listeria monocytogenes! – is decimating everything from our salads to
Richard Raymond, the USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety yesterday addressed food and restaurant industry groups. According to an article from the Associated Press:
Combining food safety agencies "is an unnecessary solution," Raymond told an audience of supermarket and restaurant industry executives Wednesday. "The USDA and the FDA have a long history of working together very
San Jose Mercury News reports that California lawmakers are looking into changing food-safety laws.
California has been “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to preventing produce contamination, according to a Central Valley legislator who ended a food-safety hearing Wednesday by saying it’s time to stop letting growers police themselves.
“We have a very, very
Margaret Prouse of The Gaurdian today published an article about food safety:
"Preventing foodborne illness, or food poisoning, is just as important as preventing injury from accidents or fire. Those who are young, old, pregnant or have impaired immune systems are most at risk, but no one wants to get food poisoning.
There are
Keith Warriner from the University of Guelph commenting on recent recalls and questioning where Canidian’s food comes from:
Part of the problem is the fact that Canada gets as much as 80 per cent of its produce from California, where health officials have warned growers three times in the last three years about their growing
KFYR-TV reports that your mother probably told you about the importance of eating your veggies, but with all the attention given lately to E. coli, and other foodborne illness, a lot of people are wondering if that`s such a good idea. Although most healthy adults can recover from foodborne illness within a week, young
September’s spinach scare and the new warnings on Salinas Valley, Calif., lettuce are reminders to home cooks to keep food safety in mind.
It’s an issue that I’ve been watching since I noted last spring that a few recipes, such as those calling for raw eggs, are outdated.
Specifically, I’ve found recipes for chocolate mousse,