A study published in the online journal PLoS ONE has found that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Staphylococcus aureus is found on pork for sale in grocery stores around the country. In 2010, researchers from the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy tested 395 samples of pork from … Read more
The hardest hit states in the Hannaford ground beef Salmonella outbreak have been New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The outbreak is noteworthy for a number of reasons, including the facts that Hannaford did not keep detailed records in grinding the hamburger and because the type of Salmonella traced to the meat is resistant … Read more
Antibiotic resistant pathogens made headlines in 2011 both as the source of major foodborne illness outbreaks and as the poster child for regulatory reform. There were major outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria throughout the world this year: In Germany, an antibiotic resistant strain of E. colisickened 1500 people and killed 18. In the United … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not going to withdraw the antibiotics penicillin and tetracycline from animal feed. The statement was published in the Federal Register before the holidays this year and was not announced in a news release or bulletin. This is the official post: “The Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) is … Read more