Researchers have developed a quantitative real-time PCR-based detection method for the emerging zoonotic organism Escherichia albertii. They found that E. albertii survives in the human intestinal ...

A color enhanced transmission electron micrograph shows a listeria bacterium in tissue. This pathogen is the third-leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the United States. Infections are ...

U.S. health officials have issued a public health warning amid a fatal outbreak of listeria food poisoning that has been linked to sliced deli meats. Two people have died and 28 hospitalized across 12 ...

If you recall, two weeks ago, I launched my column, “The Litigated Dish,” with the goal of addressing the Internet’s most frequently asked food safety questions. I kind of veered off topic last week ...

Food poisoning, also known as foodborne illness, is caused by the contamination of food by disease-causing agents (pathogens) such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and natural toxins from molds and ...

UD’s Cooperative Extension Health and Well-being team brings you food safety information to help protect against foodborne illness all year long. Foodborne illness occurs when food is contaminated ...

An expert has urged vigilance to keep ever-changing and emerging viruses out of food. Jeffrey LeJeune said it is not possible to predict the type, timing or location of the emergence of the next ...

The McDonald’s E. coli outbreak — which has now sickened more than 100 people, per reports — has spotlighted the risk of foodborne illnesses. The E. coli infections were linked to contaminated onions ...

A multistate outbreak of salmonella infections is likely linked to raw oysters, according to the CDC. Dr. Leana Wen explains ...

Campylobacter infections are the most common foodborne illnesses in the U.S., sickening an estimated 1.5 million people each ...

Osaka Metropolitan University-led researchers used a real-time PCR method to effectively detect the emerging zoonotic organism Escherichia albertii. In the hopes of establishing a diagnostic method, a ...