The year 2007 is going to be remembered for the big beef recalls due to E. coli returning with a 
vengeance. All totaled meat producers were forced to recall over 33.3 million pounds of beef products.
Topping the list was the 21.7 million pound recall due to E. coli that sent the New Jersey-based Topps
The Western Growers Association said there should be no exemptions from uniform steps that growers and handlers should have to follow to certify the safety of lettuce, spinach, endive, kale, cabbage and other greens.
At a congressional hearing in May, Joseph Pezzini, an executive with Ocean Mist Farms in Castroville, Calif., and the chairman overseeing
Researchers from Kansas State University have concluded that cattle that are fed distiller’s grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, have an increased incidence of E. coli O157:H7.
T.G. Nagaraja, a professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and Jim Drouillard, a professor of animal sciences at Kansas State
Five-year-old Aubrey Anderson from Hutchinson, Kansas, was released from Wesley Medical Center after being hospitalized for a month with hemolytic uremic syndrome. Aubrey was released from the hospital to recover at home because her mother is a registered nurse.
Public health officials have yet to identify the source of Aubrey’s illness, and she will
Vickie Shelton, a Knox County resident, passed away on Monday, November 26th at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted. Ms. Shelton had eaten ground beef before becoming ill, and public health officials are conducting tests to determine whether that ground beef was contaminated with E. coli.
American Foods Group of Green Bay, Wisc.
The USDA is proposing that they ask the public about whether the leafy green industry should be further regulated.
More regulation is the USDA’s response to several E. coli outbreaks that have been the result of consumption of contaminated produce.
One option is a national version of the industry-developed standards that followed the E. coli
Sharon Smith, the mother of Stephanie Smith, a Minnesota resident who has been hospitalized for months after eating a hamburger and becoming ill with E. coli poisoning, spoke with Kirsti Marohn of the St. Cloud Times for an article that appeared in today’s paper. She shared the story of the few days before
In September, an E. coli outbreak among students at Galena Elementary School perplexed health officials. Several children became ill with E. coli and a source of the outbreak was elusive. The sibling of two students at Galena Elementary battled an E. coli infection during the outbreak, and continues to recover after being on dialysis. His
Matt Roberts, a Mattoon High School senior from Mattoon, Illinois, became ill with an E. coli infection just before an E. coli outbreak was traced to El Rancherito restaurant in Effingham last September.
His E. coli infection progressed to hemolytic uremic syndrome and he was hospitalized for over a month. While hospitalized, Matt was placed
In an editorial titled, "Is the meat you buy safe enough?" that appears online at the Eco-Logic Powerhouse website, Henry Lamb evaluates the state of the meat industry and USDA’s role in it, including the recent E. coli outbreaks linked to meat produced at Topps and Cargill.
In the editorial, Mr. Lamb analyzes what in