Interventions in indoor broiler production can reduce the occurrence of Campylobacter in flocks and meat and consequently the number of human Campylobacter infections. This demands a comprehensive set of control measures, which have successfully been implemented in Denmark. It is the result of close collaboration between producers, authorities and researchers.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a new method to create antimicrobials that kill disease-causing pathogens. These antimicrobials can be used as an alternative to antibiotics.

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Food safety has become a massive concern in China in recent years, with scandals ranging from the use of "gutter oil" in restaurants to contaminated pork to poisoned milk. Is the government doing enough? Why is public trust in food safety so low?

Beef Products Inc.’s former director of environmental health and safety Bruce Smith plans a press conference on Tuesday at which he’ll unveil his new book, “Pink Slime Ate My Job,” and a civil suit filed against “a national news broadcasting company and other prominent individuals involved in the ‘pink slime’ ground beef controversy,” according to

Listeria monocytogenes can cause invasive diseases in humans and farm animals and is frequently isolated from dairy products and poultry. Listeriosis is uncommon in China but L. monocytogenes has been isolated from foods and food processing environments in China. However little is known of genetic diversity of Chinese L. monocytogenes isolates and their relationships with global isolates.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A teenager was sickened by a strain of salmonella that originated inside a Clark College microbiology lab earlier this month. The teen is a roommate of a student who was in a class studying live salmonella cultures, confirmed Catherine Kroll, an epidemiologist with the Clark County Public Health Department (CCPH).

Our teams are carrying out very intensive checks at the seaside, Bulgarian Food Safety Agency Director Yordan Voynov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television. He added the Agency had opened five offices in the sea resorts of Golden Sands, Albena, Sunny Beach, Sozopol and Pomorie where you can send a signal about irregularities.

Wednesday, June 20, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AMVA) and the Animal Health Institute (AHI) hosted a discussion examining the critical role that veterinarians play in food safety and maintaining animal health as a key driver in overall public.

A team of researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and four other institutions have found that young children with documented or likely allergies to milk and/or eggs, whose families were instructed on how to avoid these and other foods, still experienced allergic reactions at a rate of almost once per year.