Antibiotic-resistant E. Coli bacteria has been found in one in four chicken samples collected from the UK’s largest supermarkets, according to a recent research commissioned by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics. It also found ...
Findings suggest similar origins of some cases of schizophrenia and autism in humans Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they ...
Tags: Immune Response, Prenatal Exposure, journal Brain, maternal infection
Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
E. coli has earned its reputation as a deadly pathogen lurking in contaminated foods, but a multi-year study may give it some positive press as a source of medical knowledge and potential therapeutics. Researchers at Kansas State ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A single strain of antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria has become the main cause of bacterial infections in women and the elderly worldwide over the past decade and poses a serious health threat, researchers report. Along with becoming ...
Tags: E.coli bacteria, bacterial infections, antibiotic-resistant, sepsis
U.S. pregnant women, infants and young children should avoid raw or unpasteurized milk and milk products and only eat pasteurized products, pediatricians say. A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics says raw milk and ...
Tags: Eating Only Pasteurized Dairy Products, Avoid Raw or Unpasteurized Milk
Dangerous contaminants such as lead, chloroform, arsenic, nitrate, nitrite, radon, and E. coli bacteria are common in tap water. Bottled water, often advertised as a "pure" and "natural" alternative to tap water, is ...
Tags: Water Filter, Under-sink filters
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Microbes lurk almost everywhere, from fresh food and air filters to toilet seats and folding money. Most of the time, they are harmless to humans. But sometimes they aren't. Every year, thousands of people sicken from E. coli ...
Michigan Technological University (MTU) researcher Jaroslaw Drelich has developed a new copper-based antimicrobial compound which can make the food supply safer. Drelich, a professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a ...
Tags: food safety, food, antimicrobial compound
Brazilians meat firm JBS expects to complete the acquisition of key XL Foods assets within a week, and is seeking regulatory approval to handle the stricken Canadian group's US operations. JBS said today (10 January) it expects to ...
Tags: Brazil, JBS, meat firm, acquisition, XL Foods
B.-d. Farm Paris Creek, a dairy products manufacturer in Australia, is recalling Organic Biodynamic Yoghurt Apricot due to microbial contamination (E. coli), according to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). This product was sold ...
Tags: dairy products manufacturer, health food stores, diarrhoea, dehydration
Higa Meat & Pork Market, a Hawaiian firm, has recalled 4,100 pounds of ground beef products in the US over E. coli contamination, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The products ...
Brazilian beef firm JBS has entered into an agreement that will see its US business assume operational control of the Canadian operations of XL Foods, the company at the centre of a large-scale food scare. JBS USA will take management of ...
Tags: beef, large-scale, food safety recall, e.coli bacteria
Scientists at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough on making millions of flourescent E. coli bacteria flash all at once, creating a sort of living LED screen. Jeff Hasty, a professor of biology and bioengineering led the research team in ...
Tags: Market View, led screen