Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company making recent headlines for knowingly selling salmonella-tainted peanut butter to some of the nation’s leading makers of packaged food products, has been called in for a congressional hearing.  Congressman…

Repeated inspections didn’t get the job done.  Nor did regulations governing how to operate a safe food-handling facility.  Building codes didn’t do the job, either.  Instead, it took a widespread salmonella outbreak that made more than 500 people sick to…

Nancy Shute, expert writer on all things parenting for US News and World Report, has just described the current salmonella outbreak as the ’scariest’ she’s ever seen.  Her fears don’t stem from the number of people sickened (491 and counting)…

Think of Salmonella infection and most people think about food.  The current outbreak of infection traced to peanut butter and last year’s tomato scare put food-borne outbreaks in the headlines but food isn’t always the source for Salmonella outbreaks.  Other…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating salmonella outbreaks in 42 states that may be linked but the original source of contamination is still unknown.  Problems began as early as September 3 and, thus far, 388…

The rare strain of Salmonella that has made more than 1,000 people sick in the US and Canada has been identified as coming from a small packing plant in South Texas, according to Dr. David Acheson, associate commissioner for foods…

Speaking Tuesday on behalf of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Julie Zawisza, an agency spokesperson, said the agency is getting closer to locating the source, or sources, of the Salmonella contamination in fresh tomatoes that has spread across…

Two of the largest retail grocery chains in Texas have pulled most fresh tomatoes from their shelves and from their prepared-foods stations in order to reduce the risk of Salmonella infection that has made 21 Texans sick since mid-April.  The…

Roma and other large-sized tomatoes have been linked to a Salmonella outbreak that spans nine states, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the tomatoes in question have not been recalled, the CDC urges consumers…

New data provided by the American Society for Microbiology in February shows evidence that gastric acid may help prevent foodborne infections from developing in the body.