In the United States, agencies exist on the federal, state, and local levels to ensure a safe food supply and, in general, the food supply is very safe. However, as many as 81 million people experience foodborne illness annually, and an estimated 9,000...

Food poisoning means health problems from eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, environmental toxins, or toxins within the food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are 6-33 million cases of food poisoning...

Food is a source of nutrients not only to humans but to microorganisms as well. The organic compounds and moisture that are often present in foods present an ideal environment for the growth of various microorganisms. The monitoring of the raw food and...

Food-borne diseases are illnesses caused when people consume contaminated food or beverages. Contamination is frequently caused by disease-causing microbes called pathogens. Other causes of food-borne diseases are poisonous chemicals or harmful...

Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease) is any illness resulting from the consumption of food. Foodborne illness is commonly called food poisoning, even though the physiological effects of foodborne illness are not always caused by poisons (toxins)....

The food supply in the U.S. is the safest in the world, despite what some activists say. Foodborne illness has become a very important issue in the minds of consumers, restaurant operators and regulators in the last few years. With headlines like...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a 23 percent overall drop for seven bacterial foodborne illnesses since 1996. The data come from the Foodborne Disease Surveillance Network (FoodNet) and are published in the April 19, 2002, issue...

Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy of food poisoning that has largely gone unnoticed: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout.What they have spotted so far is troubling. In...

It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout. Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.What they've spotted so...

For as long as there have been food safety laws, there have been people arguing that those laws have been overly stringent and based on nonexistent or overstated food scares. An early example of this was the public response to The Jungle, Upton...

Laws in place today make meat processing the most highly regulated sector of the American food industry. Because contaminated meat has the potential to cause serious illness and even death among thousands of consumers, the development of an effective,...