e. coli watch

Your Chance Of Picking Up The Wrong Pound of Ground Beef: 1 in 400.

We've been reading through some of the written comments the United States Department of Agriculture received in conjunction with the big April meeting on E. coli 0157:H7.We found a letter from Dr....

Common Misspellings of E. coli - e.coli, e coli, e cloi, ecoli

E. coli O157:H7 was identified for the first time at the CDC in 1975, but it was not until seven years later, in 1982, that E. coli O157:H7 was conclusively determined to be a cause of enteric...

Rural America Offers To Cure All (But E coli) With Raw Milk

M.L. Johnson, writing in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, charts the rapid growth in Raw Milk dairies and she took time to speak with Bill Marler, the Seattle attorney representing children damaged by...

FSIS Wants To Reduce Incidence of Deadly E. coli

Next week, the Food Safety & Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is  putting  reducing the Incidence of E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Beef on the menu in meetings with its...

2006 E. coli Tainted Spinach Changing Who Pays For Recalls

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about recalls lately. We know its not true, but by their combined actions, we sometimes cannot help but thinking the food industry and its regulators are in...

E coli Kills 8-Year Old Girl In Ozarks

An isolated case in an isolated place where no one has had E coli in four years.   However, 8-year old Evie Hope Wray of Theodosia, MO was a confirmed E coli case; one that evolved into...

FSIS Holding Meeting on E. coli 0157:H7

The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service is hosting a public meeting on April 9, 2008 titled: E. coli O157:H7 - Addressing the Challenges, Moving Forward...

FSIS's Dr. Richard A. Raymond Tells Congress Why There Have Been More E. coli Recalls

Dr. Richard A. Raymond is Medical Doctor from Nebraska.  Since July 2005, he has been Undersecretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture.  He was asked by the...

Marler's List of Needed Reforms

We think the use of such phrases as "tipping point" and "perfect storm" are often over-used.  However, something may have happened this past week when comes to meaningful...

USDA Has Yet To Release Audit On E coli Controls

We have seen some good work in the past from Philip Brasher, who works out of the Washington, D.C. bureau for the Des Moines Register.  On Sunday, Brasher took on the Chino slaughterhouse...