News tagged with 'E. Coli'

A study out of the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University, finds that reusable, cloth grocery bags sometimes harbor dangerous foodborne bacteria such as E. coli and coliform from raw-meat.

The FDA needs to be remade from the bottom up says a new report from the Institute of Medicine, citing lapses in inspections, standards and authority.

19 illnesses have been reported from a rare strain of E. coli 0145, found in lettuce distributed to 23 states.

The New York Times wins a Pulitzer prize on the horrors of a contaminated food consumed by Stephanie Smith - an E. coli hamburger. The reporting led to improvements in practice. Four other prize winners won for stories that chronicled safety and health.

In a major compromise with the cattle industry, the Obama administratin is abandoning a plan to trace diseased livestock and says it will take another two years to find a workable national system that does not put the burden and cost on ranchers.

A massive beef recall in California was discovered in a packing house in products distributed throughout California as far back as 2008.

A research team looked at 90 dispensed beverages and found 70 percent had bacterial contamination that would not be allowed in municipal drinking water.

Food-borne infections can have long-lasting health effects that can be as serious as kidney failure, paralysis, hearing or visual impairments, according to a recent study by the Center for Food-borne Illness Research and Prevention.

Eight states are recalling 546,000 pounds of ground beef after E. coli contamination was detected. One person in New Hampshire has died and two others are sickened from what is suspected to be the same contaminated meat.

The Top Ten contaminated foods list is compiled by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Modern agriculture, contaminated waste water, and dirty handling is blamed for many of the cases of bacterial contamination, and proposed improvements are pending in Congress.

Manufacturers that process or hold food are now required to report any contamination within 24 hours under new FDA regulations, all in an effort to keep food-borne illness away from the public.

Linda Rivera has been hospitalized since last May from eating raw cookie dough contaminated with E. coli 0157. With her condition worsening, her chance for recovery looks slim. 80 others suffered some form of sickness from the contaminated dough.

A new vaccine given to cattle, may keep E. coli from shedding from the animal into our food supply. But getting to the root of the problem - the new documentary, "Food Inc." explores how agribusiness and factory farming methods have increased E. coli contamination and foodborne illnesses in the first place.  

It is still a mystery how E. coli 0157 made it into cookie dough found in the Nestle Toll House plant in Virginia- but federal microbiologists have identified it there.  That section of the plant has been closed displacing 250 workers. 

E. coli contamination of beef has led to a recall of more than 400,000 pounds with 24 people recording diarrhea, cramps, and vomiting from the bacterium.