According to a new study from Stanford University, the influenza virus can remain infectious in raw milk stored at refrigeration temperatures for up to ...

By Ron Erickson Recently, I visited the immense breakfast cereal aisle at my local supermarket.  I was curious to learn from the labels of ...

Suspected or confirmed cases of Norovirus and Yersinia will soon have to be reported to government health officials by laboratories in England. The move ...

On July 25th, FCCHD and DPHHS received confirmatory testing results of clinical and food samples verifying ground beef as the ...

Holiday leftovers are often just as cherished as the main meal itself, but they must be handled with care to avoid foodborne ...

I gave my staff the week off (you might have caught me answering phones) – it has been that kind of year. Here is wishing all of you peace and a food safety New Year. I have been making candles ...

Recent history has seen Listeria monocytogenes in cheeses, peaches, ice cream, raw milk cheese, leafy greens, ham, taco kits, ...

In the past three decades, cantaloupes have consistently been linked to some of the most severe foodborne illness outbreaks involving Salmonella. A recent ...

A Salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 130 people in Chile may have been caused after food was contaminated with a strain used to monitor testing ...

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent ...

Believe it or not, many food companies find it cheaper to pay millions of dollars to “resolve” foodborne illness outbreaks ...

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not ...