Beef Products Inc., the maker of lean, finely textured beef (LFTB) dubbed “pink slime" by the media and critics of its use, announced it would permanently shutter operations in three of its four operating plants. The announcement comes after the company could not recover ...More
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced new prevention-based policy measures to better protect consumers from foodborne illness in meat and poultry products. The measures will significantly improve the ability of both plants and USDA to trace contaminated ...More
Water-related disease is a serious concern globally as many countries struggle to access to clean drinking water; however, new research published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene suggests the humble lime may provide an inexpensive and quick method to ...More
The Oregon Public Health Division announced laboratory tests on raw milk produced at the Foundation Farm in Clackamas County tested positive for the same strain of Escherichia coli O157:H7 that sickened 17 people and hospitalized four children this month. Three of the ...More
Public health officials in Portland, Ore. and St. Louis, Mo., are investigating outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections linked to the consumption of raw milk that have sickened 11 people, and hospitalized three children in Oregon and two children in Missouri. Four ...More
Town and Country Foods, Inc., of Greene, Maine, is recalling approximately 2,057 pounds of ground and tenderized beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced April 11. ...More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the second edition of its Bad Bug Book, an online handbook that provides current information about the major known agents that cause foodborne illness, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions and naturally ...More
On March 31, Congress waded into the murky debate over the use of beef products that contain “lean finely textured beef"—dubbed “pink slime" by news outlets and social media sites. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduced The Requiring Easy and Accurate Labeling of Beef ...More
The controversy over the use of “pink slime" was ratcheted up another notch today when the company that makes the "lean, finely textured beef" used as a filler in ground beef suspended operations in three of the four plants responsible for making the food additive. ...More
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