The Lincoln Journal-Star reports that a small child from Lincoln has been ill with an E. coli O157:H7 infection since the 4th of July.
Children can suffer various ailments when they become ill with E. coli. One of the worst conditions, hemolytic uremic syndrome, is a debilitating complication of E. coli O157:H7 infection that
A team of scientists from UC Davis will begin a four-year study of the sources of E. coli O157:H7 contamination in the Salinas Valley before the end of the yar, according to an univeristy press release. The USDA and UC Davis have been planning the study, which is funded with a $1.2 million grant from
The Produce News reports that the health department of the government of Mexico, in an official memorandum dated Oct. 9, announced an immediate halt on the importation of all fresh lettuce from the United States including bulk lettuce and fresh salads containing lettuce, an action that baffled many in the U.S. produce industry.
The memo
Washington State legislators are looking into the possibility of banning raw milk.
However, some worry that banning raw milk altogether and making the sale of raw milk illegal will move sales of unpasteurized milk to an underground sales ring, where there would be no regulation and a greater risk of illness.
NPR recently interviewed Ken Costello, a Nebraska man who became ill with E. coli after eating contaminated spinach, and whose mother-in-law died after also becoming ill with a spinach-linked E. coli infection.
The hospital had not tested her for E. coli as part of their routine testing. Costello had to seek independent testing on the
The Associated Press reports that cattle ranchers have been working to prevent fecal contamination in the Salinas Valley spinach and lettuce fields.
Ranchers were taking steps to keep livestock droppings from infecting produce long before the recent outbreak. These include designating watering holes for cattle so they don’t drink from creeks that flow through farms
Michael R. Taylor, former administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and FDA’s deputy commissioner for policy, told the Baltimore Sun his opinion on who is at fault for the recent E. coli outbreak tied to tained spinach.
Despite repeated calls by the Government Accountability Office and the National Academy of Sciences to modernize
After the most recent E. coli outbreak traced to fresh produce, consumers are going organic – but not necessarily mass-produced organic. They’re buying local, often at farmer’s markets, according to the Associated Press.
"We’ve gone from an era when a food-borne outbreak was a potato salad at a church picnic to a multistate, national or
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the estate of June Dunning, a Haggerstown, Maryland, resident who was part of a nationawide E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach. Ms. Dunning suffered an intense E. coli O157:H7 infection and hemolytic uremic syndrome before passing away on September 15, 2006.
The lawsuit filing coincides
The authors of an editorial in the Washington Post made some points about how to make our nation’s food safety system more efficient and therefore, make our food safer.
In the editorial, they suggest that Congress should provide money to increase inspection staffing and inspection frequency at the FDA. Other suggestions include lawmakers requiring agencies