It’s happening again. A single salmonella-contaminated food item is forcing recalls of scores of other products throughout the country.
We went though this last year with contaminated peanuts from the Georgia and Texas plants of Peanut Corporation of America.
PCA recalled the tainted goobers, but the ripple effect spread for weeks as hundreds of manufacturers pulled thousands [...]

Remember last year’s epic recall of salmonella-tainted peanuts? The number of food manufacturers added to the recall list grew to more than a thousand over the following weeks because, it turned out, they were all buying goobers from Peanut Corporation of America.
Well, it may be happening again, but this [...]

Over the holidays I wrote about a meal we all wanted to avoid.
For the appetizer: San Antonio Bay oysters polluted with Noroviruses. For the main course: grilled beef infected with E. coli from contaminated tenderizing needles; chicken with Campylobacter or imported ham with Listeria monocytogenes. Then there’s a side dish of stuffing loaded with salmonella-contaminated [...]

In what appears to be important news for victims of traumatic brain injury and stroke, the tropical spice cinnamon has been found to prevent brain cells from swelling.
The swelling is a condition in which fluid either accumulates within brain cells or is retained in blood vessels that form around brain cells.

After two years of research, health investigators have reported that slaughterhouse workers that suffered debilitating diseases of their nervous system were exposed to microscopic particles of pig brain.

Government researchers have found that high-fructose corn syrup, which is used as a sweetening agent in thousands of products, creates potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance when heated.

During the campaign and several times since, President Obama promised to do “everything possible” to increase the safety of America’s food supply.

“In God we trust. Everyone else must test for E. coli.”

Touted as our next Industrial Revolution, the use of nano particles continues to sweep across the global business world like the high tech tsunami it is.
Inventions and new applications fly off laboratory benches and out of clean rooms faster than patents can be filed or danger to public health even assessed.
Globally, sales of nano-based products [...]

Federal scientists say that essential oils from oregano, allspice, cinnamon, clove and garlic can be effective, natural barriers against E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria.
The trio of foodborne pathogens sicken millions in the U.S. every year and kill thousands more, reports the Centers for Disease Control.
Research on the health benefits of herbs and spices began with [...]