SACRAMENTO -- The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today warned consumers not to eat Wo Chong brand alfalfa and clover sprouts because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.

Amy’s always telling me how great Ann Arbor is, because she spent six years getting PhD-ified there at the University of Michigan. I’ve been there a couple of times, driving between Ontario and Kansas with Amy, and didn’t think much of the place. Expensive and dumpy.

I work as an epidemiologist with CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, otherwise known as FoodNet. My job is to study who gets sick and why and share this information with groups and persons whose goal is to reduce the amount of foodborne illness in the United States.

MANHATTAN -- The smallest bacterium that is harmless to cattle can be deadly once the food supply is contaminated. That's why Kansas State University's T.G. Nagaraja, a university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, finds it's important to learn as much as possible about E. coli O157:H7.

Abstract We present a consumer-focused perspective on creating communications regarding potentially contaminated foods. It is illustrated with decisions that might have faced US consumers during the 2009 recalls of peanut and pistachio products. The example shows how knowledge about test results and regulatory processes might be made more useful to consumers.

Incoming raw poultry is the primary source of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in commercial chicken cooking plants, according to a 21-month study conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators at the University of Georgia.

It's a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher has had to destroy a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish.

SPEAKERS Crystal Smith-Spangler - Stanford University Margaret L. Brandeau - Stanford University Dena M. Bravata - Stanford University Vandana Sundaram - Stanford University Paul Eschbach - Research Assistant Clay Bavinger - Stanford University

Following up on that norovirus outbreak linked to a restaurant in Prince Edward Island, Canada, the one where the restaurant said it has never had a food safety problem and that its ingredients were fresh and local – and where at least 48 people are barfing – a barfblog.com reader wrote: