In this CDC report, high school students became infected with STEC E. coli from the mishandling / undercooking venison. Here, a group of stu...

The leading cause of recalls is allergens.  Case in point, 3 allergen-related recalls over the last two days due to mislabeling.  In two cas...

CDC has updated their Multistate Foodborne Outbreak listing for 2011 ( http://www.cdc.gov/outbreaknet/outbreaks.html ). This is a nice refe...

One bad cantaloupe [farmer] can spoil the whole bunch….in the LA Times article (below), we see another example of negative impact on an enti...

This study gives us an idea of the costs related to foodborne illness, and is great to use in presentations, but as the author points out, t...

It is amazing to see the number of recalls that are issued each week. I put put together the listing of the recalls that occurred within the...

Large companies continue to move into the growing organic marketplace, often through the purchase of small organic companies, in order to ca...

It is interesting to see the same company involved in two recalls due to potential Clostridium botulinum .  In both cases, there were no ill...

J. M. Smucker announced a multistate recall due to possible Salmonella contamination.  There have been no reported illnesses.   http://www...