This is reprinted from Modern Farmer and thought it a nice summary of recent cases where company owners received prison sentences for shippi...

Each year people become ill from eating contaminated fish.  CDC issued a report on data from their surveillance system on the agents and th...

Approximately 77 people became ill in a correctional facility in Wyoming after eating rancid tortilla chips.  Rancidity is the breakdown of ...

Foodborne outbreaks can have a devastating effect on those who become ill, but also will huge financial impact on those companies in terms o...

CDC released 2013 Report – Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks United States. 2013: Annual Report.  http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/p...

It is easy to make the assumption that rapid diagnostics, CIDT or Culture Independent Diagnostic Tests, would help in determining the cause ...

The CDC issued a report that attributes foodborne illness cases to different foods. Calculations, based on known cases over the period from...

A Chicago based firm is recalling partially prepared breaded chicken breast product - Chicken Kiev after that product was linked to cluster ...

UPDATE - April 4, 2014, CDC issued Notes from Field report. Whole Foods is recalling Crave Brothers Les Frères cheese in response to a ...

UPDATE 5/8/13  CDC  - 81 people  infected from 18 states with 29% hospitalized. http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/saintpaul-04-13/index.html ...

This past week, two reports relating to the topic of food risk were issued resulting in a media frenzy.  One of those reports was CDC’s annu...

USDA is expanding the health alert for beef products produced by a Canadian firm, XL foods. This product may have made its way to as many a...

When a foodborne illness outbreak occurs, having insurance, and enough insurance, can be the difference between a company surviving or not. ...

For Update ( http://pennstatefoodsafety.blogspot.com/2012/05/updates-on-salmonella-linked-to-tempeh.html ) A North Carolina company, Smili...

Update 5/3/12 CDC reports that there is now close to 260 people infected with two different strains of Salmonella. CDC Release 5/2/12 ht...

FDA has recently released the second edition of the Bad Bug Book. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FodborneIll...

Consumers who want to reduce the risk of foodborne illness should consider avoiding these foods.   Avoid high-risk foods, food-safety expe...

In a research article published in the February, 2011 edition of Journal of Food Protection, a survey was conducted among foodservice worker...

One of the major regulatory initiatives for preventing foodborne illness in the US is the Reportable Food Registry.  FDA regulated companies...

Finally, we can stop quoting the ole ‘76 million people get stick each year from foodborne illness, with 300, 000 hospitalizations, and 5,00...