The entire European Union is struggling to come to terms with Germany’s E. coli outbreak amid reports that a 14th person had died and hundreds remained ill. "One problem with Spanish cucumbers, and all of Europe is trembling," Belgium's Agriculture Minister Sabine Laruelle said on the sidelines of an informal meeting in Debrecen, eastern Hungary.

KALAMAZOO — A spike in poison mushroom cases — including a Kalamazoo 2-year-old — has prompted the Michigan Department of Community Health to issue this warning to mushroom hunters: Be sure you know what you’re eating and how to prepare it correctly.

Posting of online results only days away Public health officials say they're only days away from starting to post inspection results for Sarnia-Lambton's restaurants online. A DineSafe Lambton website has been created and is being tested before going live, according to Andrew Taylor, Lambton County's general manager of public health services.

Budget cuts proposed by House Republicans to the Food and Drug Administration would undermine the agency’s ability to carry out a historic food-safety law passed by Congress just five months ago, food safety advocates say.

At least 14 people have died from the recent E. coli outbreak in Germany, and the blame for the outbreak is being placed on tainted cucumbers. The outbreak is one of the worst on record, but deadly infection from the bacterium due to infected produce is nothing new. So what can you do to prevent your family from becoming sick from Escherichia coli?

Austrian authorities sent inspectors to 33 organic supermarkets Monday to make sure Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially fatal bacteria have been taken off shelves. The move came on the heels of a recall and sales ban of cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants that originated in Spain and were delivered to stores in the Alpine republic by German companies.

Timely reporting of infectious disease cases to public health authorities is essential to effective public health response. To evaluate the timeliness of reporting to the Dutch Municipal Health Services (MHS), we used as quantitative measures the intervals between onset of symptoms and MHS notification, and between laboratory diagnosis and notification with regard to six notifiable diseases.

An aide to U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston says the first district Republican is opposed to new regulations that would end up costing taxpayers a bundle to implement, even if the intended goal is tougher food safety requirements. President Barack Obama would like to strengthen food safety regulations, but he's running into a Republican wall in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig has ordered an inquiry into the claims of mistreatment of Australian cattle exported to Indonesia. Senator Ludwig said he was shocked by TV footage of mistreatment of these animals, shown on the ABC Four Corners program on Monday night.