If it seems like every week, there's a new recall or outbreak of foodborne illness, you're right. Almost every day, the FDA updates their recall homepage with new food that's being pulled from shelves, either because it's made someone sick, or because it could. But is food really more unsafe now...
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered and received a patent for a naturally occurring lantibiotic - a peptide produced by a harmless bacteria - that could be added to food to kill harmful bacteria like salmonella, E. coli and listeria. The U of M lantibiotic is the first natural...
FDA scientists successfully used a new genome sequencing test to retrospectively examine a 2009-2010 foodborne illness outbreak to help trace the source of the infection. A Salmonella Montevideo outbreak that began early in 2010 was linked to spice rubs on certain salamis and sickened nearly 300...