Foodborne Illness

food-safety

Leafy greens, including lettuce, are responsible for a notable share of produce-related outbreaks, and recalls can affect food service businesses and home kitchens alike. Lettuc...

food-safety-nutrition

Raw milk is nutrient-dense in theory, but in practice it carries measurable risk of bacterial infection. Pasteurization reliably kills pathogens without substantially reducing c...

health

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that causes listeriosis, a serious infection primarily affecting pregnant people, older adults, and individuals with weakened immune system...

food-safety

Watermelon poisoning refers to illness caused by eating contaminated watermelon, most often due to foodborne pathogens, pesticide residues, or natural toxins from spoilage micro...

Health & Safety

When people refer to flesh-eating bacteria tied to raw oysters, they are usually describing infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a naturally occurring bacterium in warm coastal wat...

Food Recalls

When Kroger issues a beef recall, it means the company or federal regulators have identified a potential safety issue, most commonly contamination with pathogenic bacteria such...

Health & Safety

Raw (unpasteurized) milk can carry bacteria and other microbes that pasteurization removes or reduces. When people consume raw milk or raw milk products, they can develop foodbo...

food-safety

A foodborne illness outbreak is officially defined as two or more people who share a similar illness and a link to a common food or exposure. This threshold exists because even...