Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Eric Nicholson and veterinarian Robert Kunkle have found a way to facilitate the diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a deadly group of diseases that can develop in a range of mammals, including humans.

Though cases of botulism food poisoning aren't common in the United States today, they're nonetheless of concern to food safety researchers. That's why Agricultural Research Service (ARS) biologist Larry H. Stanker and colleagues at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., developed a new, improved test for detecting what's known as "serotype A" of the toxin.

Irony is pretty ironic sometimes. On the three-year anniversary of me officially starting at Kansas State University, two-years after the beginning of barfblog.com, and a year after going down the baby road yet again, Chapman finally defends his PhD and all the staff at the remnants of the Food Safety Network at the University of Guelph are fired.

NEW YORK -- Cryptosporidiosis -- an illness characterized by diarrhea, fever, and chills -- appears to be under-reported in the U.S. elderly population, Massachusetts-based researchers report.