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 04.30.2012
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Mexican authorities say a festival celebrating Children's Day went badly wrong and more than 200 youngsters were sickened aft...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.06.2012
If you've ever come down with a bad case of food poisoning, take note. The germs that caused it may affect you long after you supposedly recovered -- ...
Posted 03.20.2012
Yes, most of the foods on this list need to be eaten in massive amounts to cause a reaction; however toxins are present in these everyday foods and ca...
Posted 03.15.2012
Food safety seemed like a particularly grim topic last year. Reports of devastating illnesses -- and even deaths -- from food-borne pathogens seem to ...
AP | Posted 04.10.2012
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 Indians and other people who suffered food poisoning after attendin...
Posted 02.07.2012
Earlier this week, HuffPost Food wrote that Food Safety News had been investigating an unusually large outbreak of salmonella originating at an unname...
Posted 02.01.2012
Throughout October and November, 68 people in 10 states came down with salmonella. That's a drop in the 48 million-strong bucket of people estimated t...
AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 03.20.2012
NEW YORK — A substance found in nuts and whole grains may someday help doctors fight the kind of food poisoning that sickened thousands of peopl...
Posted 01.12.2012
Recent studies, and the last episode of Homeland, have reaffirmed the efficacy of electric shock therapy of major depression and bipolar disorder. The...
Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.06.2012
Say it ain't so, Delfina! According to the Bay Citizen, about two dozen diners suffered from food poisoning at the extremely popular Mission Distri...
Posted 01.06.2012
Nineteen have fallen ill with drug-resistant salmonella after eating a bad batch of ground beef, reports Food Safety News. The AP writes: PORTLAND,...
Posted 01.04.2012
If you eat a bad mussel or an undercooked burger, you might find yourself vomiting and under the weather for days. It's miserable -- and if you're eld...
Posted 12.30.2011
Reading tons of food news can make you hungry. But if the past year is a typical one, it can also make you scared to eat. It turns out people get sick...
AP | Posted 02.25.2012
MEXICO CITY — Medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and dozens of others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas din...
Kitchen Daily | Posted 11.16.2011
It's that time of year again -- back to school! Parents, we know you're all running around buying school supplies and new clothes for your kids. It's ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 12.21.2011
Right now, just one in 1000 cows that pass through the deathly gates of an industrial slaughterhouse is tested for harmful pathogens. That's because t...
The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 12.18.2011
By now, all the cantaloupe potentially tainted with the listeria that has sickened dozens over the past four weeks has left the food system, reports F...
Oneika Raymond | Posted 11.30.2011
After spending two days in bed, thanks to a wicked bout of food poisoning, I realized that the worst part of traveling solo is getting sick and suffering alone.
AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 11.13.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the deepest fears sweeping a shattered nation following the Sept. 11 attacks was that terrorists might poison the country...
Maria Rodale | Posted 11.08.2011
by Wendy Gordon In what country is it legal for deadly salmonella to be in your food? Um, well, there may be others, but I am sure of only one--the Un...
Barbara Kowalcyk | Posted 10.11.2011
Currently, the USDA tests meat and poultry products for Salmonella and has limits in place for how much Salmonella can be in any particular testing sample of meat. But the limits are woefully inadequate, and they aren't enforceable anyway.
Alex Formuzis | Posted 09.06.2011
The produce industry, fresh off a failed attempt to get the federal government to fuzz up the results of its annual tests for pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, is at it again.
AP | DAVID RISING and MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.01.2011
BERLIN — European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. It's a sad fact of...
William Marler | Posted 07.27.2011
Either public health is so underfunded that they cannot catch an outbreak, or the food industry has finally taken my advice and are "putting me out of business."
Posted 06.01.2012