Salon.com recently investigated the health benefits some people say they get from drinking it. They also looked into raw milk, cow shares, and organizations that promote raw milk consumption, and came to conclustions about raw milk:
Many people come to raw milk as a last resort; one man I spoke to for this article had
Fresh Express has announced that the company will donate up to $2 million for E. coli research. According to the press release, which was posted at Infection Control Today, Fresh Express will help fund an independent advisory panel that has already been formed.
Members are respected scientists in the food safety community:
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has moved closer to identifying the source of illness for the Taco John E. coli outbreak.
FDA and the state of California, working in conjunction with state health officials in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have DNA-matched the strain of E. coli O157:H7 bacteria associated with the
Governor Schwarzeneger’s proposed 2007 budget includes an increase in food safety funding, up from $1.7 million last year to $2.1 million this year.
It also includes a shift in responsibility from the Department of Health Services to a newly formed Department of Public Health, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
The additional money would help
Dr. Mike Osterholm, a nationally known food-safety and infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota, argues that the public has some misperceptions about irradiation.
Dr. Mike Osterholm, a nationally known food-safety and infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota, argues that the public has some misperceptions about irradiation.
“The food does not become radioactive
Last fall, several students at the University of North Carolina became ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after eating at McAlister’s Deli. In a follow-up story on that outbreak, the Daily Tarheel reports that the Orange County Environmental Health Department’s final report also showed a strong statistical likelihood that the restaurant’s lettuce was the source
In the last decade, lettuce and spinach grown in California’s central coast region have caused at least nine outbreaks of illness associated with E. coli bacteria. Today, fresh produce outpaces even meat as a source of food-borne illness. The beef industry tightened its safety practices after Jack In the Box burgers contaminated with E. coli
Work on safety guidelines that the FDA is ready to propose began in 2004 — though it has been slowed because staff time has been devoted to finding the source of the most recent outbreaks of E coli.
Even when these guidelines are finished, the FDA says they will be voluntary, according to the
QSR.com recently highlighted several E. coli outbreaks that happened at the end of 2006. The author, Fred Minnick, brought up the E. coli outbreaks due to the impact they had on quick-serve restaurants, such as Taco Bell and Taco John’s.
"E. coli was another big headline maker in the QSR segment as Taco Bell and
Among the concerns outlined in the Monterey County Grand Jury’s 2006 report was E. coli contamination in the Salinas Valley lettuce and spinach fields, which has plagued the area for years now, reports the Monterey County Herald.
As part of their investigation, grand jury members accompanied federal, state and local health officials on a survey