A six-year-old boy who died last week in Millbury, Mass. was poisoned with E. coli, according to public health officials. The case was confirmed by...
AP | Posted 01.02.2012
DENVER -- The death toll in an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe has reached 29 after federal health authorities say an eighth person has died in Col...
AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The death toll in an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is still growing as federal health authorities report new deaths in Colorado, Ka...
AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 12.21.2011
DENVER — Members of Congress have requested a briefing with the Colorado cantaloupe farm whose packing facility has been traced to a deadly list...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.19.2011
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five deaths in 12 states are now linked to listeria in cantaloupe, the deadliest known outbreak of foodborne illness in the ...
AP/The Huffington Post | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.07.2011
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Federal health authorities say a nationwide outbreak of listeria in Colorado cantaloupes is ...
AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 11.30.2011
HOLLY, Colo. -- Eric Jensen surveys his dusty cantaloupe field and seems equally stunned and puzzled at the fate that has befallen his crop: row upon ...
Posted 09.04.2011
Congress has passed a bill that would cut all funding from the Microbiological Data Program, which food safety experts call the United States' most im...
Posted 06.06.2011
In an effort to reduce the amount of consumer illnesses and deaths due to contaminated meat, the USDA has announced a "test and hold" rule that will d...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011
ATLANTA — Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection? New research suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk t...
Fox Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday brought his efforts to call for an overhaul of the nation's food safety laws to a West Loop grocery store. Durbin, wi...
Mother Nature Network | Posted 11.17.2011
Newspaper investigation finds that most apple juice is laced with some level of arsenic. But how much is too much?...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 11.17.2011
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investi...
AP | SHANNON DININNY | Posted 05.25.2011
YAKIMA, Wash. — Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other loss...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011
Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?
Posted 06.01.2012