E. Coli News

Nestle officials are meeting with Danville workers to review the finding that a sample of raw cookie dough collected at the plant tested positive for E. coli.

Over the last five days, the Middlesex-London Health Unit has received reports of three children with E. coli O157:H7. To receive three laboratory confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 in such a short timeframe is unusual.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Health confirms that three children have been exposed to the E. coli bacteria.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet ; GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 5:00 PDT A recent study carried out by the Health Protection Agency and LACORS has revealed the presence of Salmonella and E. coli bacteria in a small number of samples of ready-to-eat shelled ...

The latest salvo against the nation's agricultural-industrial complex is on the big screen.

The state Department of Environmental Services this week issued a high-bacteria advisory for three Seacoast area beaches due to a higher than average amount of the bacteria Enterocci.

Just in time for the Independence Day holiday, the National Park Service says all Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore beaches are open and safe for swimming.

Costco is trying to tell hundreds of thousands of people across the Northwest that they may have bought meat contaminated with E. coli.

HORSHAM District Community Partnership Team and the District's Senior Persons' Council have joined forces during Food Safety Week to promote the need for correct storage and food handling at home.

Costco Wholesale, the fifth largest general retailer in the United States, is sending letters to nearly 300,000 customers in the country's northwest and midwest regions, informing them that they might have bought meat that is subject to recall because of possible E. coli bacteria contamination, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 6:36 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 6:36 p.m. MINNEAPOLIS No one really wants to meet Bill Marler, a food safety lawyer from Seattle, because those who do are likely A) critically sickened by contaminated food and in need of legal help, or B) responsible for selling the food.

HEB is issuing a voluntary recall of some beef in connection with the national voluntary recall by JBS Swift Beef Company.

Consumers might not learn what South Carolina stores sold ground beef possibly contaminated with E. coli until after the grill-happy July Fourth weekend.

The public were warned Wednesday not to consume certain Presidenta s Choice fresh beef products because they might be tainted with E. coli.

The state Division of Water Quality has taken more samples from Eureka's water system after a test last week revealed trace amounts of E. coli.

There's another food scare, thousands of pounds of beef are being pulled off shelves.

The Kroger Co. on Tuesday recalled ground beef sold in some of its grocery stores.

Every new food recall pushes Food, Inc ., Robert Kenner's documentary about the perilous state of our food supply, into the news.

Are we really writing a story about the two least-sexy topics in the restaurant world, insurance and foodborne illness? You bet we are after learning that a New Jersey judge decreed that companies selling the former must pay claims of restaurants that experience the latter, no matter how cleverly exclusions might have been buried in a policy's fine ...

Three cases of children diagnosed with E. coli infections in less than a week have raised a red flag with health officials in London, Ont.