Microbial

  • Food Safety Top Priority for Consumers, Manufacturers
    Just this past year, food recalls and natural disasters affected global food supply chains, while political upheavals, new government regulations and continued debates about the environment pushed the issued of foods safety to the forefront of both manufacturers’ and ...More
    February 7, 2012
    Posted in News, Bakery / Cereal
  • Listeria Prompts Hard-Boiled Egg Recall in 34 States
    egg recall
    Michael Foods, Inc., has recalled more than 1 million hard-boiled eggs because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Feb. 1. ...More
    February 6, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Raw Milk Sickens 38 on East Coast
    raw milk bacteria
    The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that 38 people in four states have been sickened by raw milk contaminated with Campylobacter bacteria that was produced at The Family Cow farm in Chambersburg, Pa. ...More
    February 3, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Salmonella Kills 1, Sickens 30 in the UK
    An outbreak of Salmonella Newport linked to tainted ready-to-eat sliced watermelon has killed one and sickened 30 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to the U.K. Health Protection Agency. The outbreak began in December 2011, and cases of illness caused by the ...More
    February 2, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Obesity, Chronic Liver Disease May Be Infectious
    Obesity and chronic liver disease may be infectious, triggered by a family of proteins that alter populations of microbes in the stomach, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. ...More
    February 2, 2012
    Posted in News
  • FDA Seeks Permanent Injunction Against NY Cheese Maker
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 30 to seek a permanent injunction against a New York cheese manufacturer from operating because of a history of unsanitary conditions and producing cheese in a facility contaminated ...More
    January 31, 2012
    Posted in News
  • High Levels of MRSA Found In Retail Meats
    Retail pork products in the United States have a higher prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) than previously identified, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE. ...More
    January 23, 2012
    Posted in News
  • UNL Receives $25 Million Grant to Reduce E. coli in Beef
    The University of Nebraska-Lincoln received a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop ways to reduce the occurrence of E. coli strains throughout the beef production chain. The research will focus on the seven most dangerous strains of E. ...More
    January 23, 2012
    Posted in News
  • LEASA Sprouts Recalled Over Salmonella
    Miami-based LEASA Industries Co., Inc., is recalling 346 cases of LEASA Living Alfalfa Sprouts because they may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Jan. 19. ...More
    January 20, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Proposed Rule to Modernize Poultry Slaughter Inspection
    USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a modernization of young chicken and turkey slaughter inspection in the United States by focusing FSIS inspection resources on the areas of the poultry production system that pose the greatest risk to food ...More
    January 20, 2012
    Posted in News
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