E. coli

Hazelnuts and mixed nuts sold at major grocers nationwide including Safeway, Sam's Club, Target, Albertsons, Trader Joe's and Ralphs are being recalled after being linked to seven cases of e.coli infection in three states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said. DeFranco & Sons of Los...

Mauri Gorgonzola cheese sold in Costco stores in Colorado is being recalled because a sample showed it was contaminated with E. coli, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the E. coli strain differs from the one that sickened 25 people in a five-state outbreak. It was...

Ready Pac Foods, Inc. is recalling 702 cases of bagged spinach salad due to a possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. The recalled spinach includes Ready Pac's Baby Spinach variety of Spinach Temptations 6-oz. bagged salads with use-by dates of July 4...

Romaine lettuce is not having a good month. Last week, an e. coli outbreak that sickened more than 30 people was blamed on romaine lettuce shipped to such places as restaurants and cafeterias. Now, Fresh Express, a brand that is widely sold in grocery stores across the country, is recalling a...

The New York Times reports that one of the main suppliers of processed beef filler to fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King -- not to mention school lunch and grocery store meat -- had been using ammonia as a means of killing E. coli O157:H7 and salmonella. Yes. Ammonia. Years...

As a Dad with a daughter in public school, I was more than a little alarmed to read that the meat/bacteria regulations for fast food restaurants are 10 times more strict than the standards set by the USDA for school lunches, according to a report by USA Today. Underscoring how truly alarming this...

On Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reported that researchers have found mercury in several samples of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The cheap sweetener, which is used in foods ranging from pickles to jellies to sodas, has long been under attack for contributing to America's obesity epidemic. Now,...