How Signing up for Food Delivery in Los Angeles Can Benefit You
There are quite a few benefits that you can experience when you decide to sign up for food delivery in Los Angeles. If you are a business in Los Angeles, for instance, you may want to outsource your company’s More...
How to Properly Move a Laboratory
Moving a laboratory is inherently dangerous. The materials can be toxic, machinery can be fragile, and the space you are leaving needs to be decontaminated. The risks need to be weighed against the rewards or necessity More...
5 Big Cover-ups of the Last 5 Years
Some years, it feels like the media and the government are colluding against the people they serve. Despite claims of free press and public office transparency, the most powerful engines of news in the United States More...
Japan McDonald’s apologizes for a string of mishaps
After several mishaps of foreign objects in customer’s food reported since last summer, McDonald’s Japan officially apologized on their website Wednesday (computer translated). Image/Kici (public domain) Corporate More...
Detoxifying the Holidays: food safety, environmental issues with Christmas trees
The holiday season is fast approaching and soon families will discuss dinner menus, choose a tree and send out Christmas cards. With merriment and tradition in the thoughts of many excitedly planning festivities, More...
What’s All The Rave About Doomsday Anyway?
A report in United We Serve states that a prepping professional survey reveals that not many people are all prepped up for disasters as they ought to be. Forty percent of the participants in the survey admitted More...
Shigella case from Wal-Mart’s Salsarita’s Restaurant results in lawsuit
Attorneys Bill Marler and Drew Falkenstein of Marler Clark, the nation’s only law firm dedicated to representing victims of foodborne illness, have filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Benton County, Arkansas More...
Food poisoning 101: 3 spore-forming bacteria that cause foodborne illness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Clostridium More...
Restaurant association releases statement in response to CDC norovirus report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Vital Signs report this week stating that most norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food occur in food service settings, CDC director Dr. Tom Friedan More...
Norovirus: Enforcing food safety practices is key to prevention
PRESS RELEASE Most norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food occur in food service settings, according to a Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infected food workers are frequently More...
Vermont passes GMO labeling law, Monsanto and Dupont set to sue
Vermont will become the first state to enact a law requiring labels on foods with genetically modified ingredients after the governor signed the bill into law on Thursday afternoon. The bill will go into effect More...
Results on CDC Food Safety Progress Report a mixed bag
The nation’s food safety grades are out and the results are mixed. CDC’s annual report card shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the United States. The rate More...
Seventy percent of the new diseases in humans are of animal origin: FAO report
There are numerous reasons why and how diseases jump species–from animals to humans–according to an FAO report released today that focuses on root causes and prevention of these emerging diseases. Severe More...
Discussing foodborne illness with Dr. Doug Powell
Outbreaks of salmonella and the parasite, cyclospora, have been big stories in the news during recent weeks and months. Image/CDC To sort out some of the latest foodborne illness news, food scientist and editor More...
USDA issues salmonella public health alert, nearly 300 illnesses reported in outbreak
With hundreds of people in 18 states having been sickened in a salmonella outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert yesterday. The More...
‘The Monsanto Protection Act’ moves ahead in Congress, protecting the biotech company from lawsuits
House Republicans shielded the Monsanto company from penalty as they included an extension of the so-called Monsanto Protection Act in the spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown, according to text More...
Nestle to open more than 20 new labs to study food-borne pathogens
Switzerland-based, Nestle SA, announced Thursday the opening of more than 20 advanced research laboratories to study food-borne pathogens that are harmful to human health, according to a press release May 30. Norovirus More...
Mummified bat found in cereal box
A German man got a huge surprise while emptying his cereal box for a morning bowl full for breakfast. A dead bat fell into his bowl and horror struck when he realized it was NOT a toy of some kind, possibly some More...
Joseph Pineda, Florida man arrested after impersonating police officer for free McDonalds
A Pinellas Park man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he flashed a gun and badge at the drive thru at McDonald’s in an attempt to get free food. Joseph Pineda Identified as 33-year-old Joseph More...
Hong Kong officials report imported Japanese oatmeal is ‘radioactive’
Officials with the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong announced to the public the discovery of radioactive oatmeal imported from Japan during routine surveillance. Nihonshokuhin More...