E. Coli News

National Beef Packing Company of Liberal is recalling almost 23,000 pounds of raw ground beef products that could be contaminated.

Before you fire up the grill for some great summer meals, Consumer Reports has a caution.

Twenty-nine cases of salmonella were confirmed after Street Spice festival in Newcastle, including 25 from strain never found before in UK Uncooked curry leaves in a chutney left more than 400 people who ate at a street food festival with diarrhoea and vomiting or salmonella poisoning, health officials have found.

More than 23,000 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled on fears they may be contaminated with E-Coli bacteria.

More than 23,000 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled on fears they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

Rehoboth Dairy sells fresh, pasteurized milk to Cape Region residents. Owner Mary Ann Warren said she does not plan to sell raw milk even if legislation to permit raw milk sales passes.

The sandy beaches that dot the Lake Michigan shoreline appear postcard perfect, but some frequently hide high levels of bacteria.

Plant flavonoid polyphenols continue to find increasing pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications; however their isolation, especially of pure compounds, from plant material remains an underlying challenge.

The pharmaceutical industry has developed yet another new vaccine, this time for a common holiday ailment that is said to afflict millions of travelers every year.

The number of cases reported in an E. coli outbreak has increased to 9 confirmed cases and 8 probable, DuPage County health officials said Tuesday.

Carlsbad Director of Public Works Luis Camero said the beach water tested highly for E. coli, fecal coliforms and bacteria well above the Environmental Protection Agency's threshold for human contact.

Summer's here and after all of the bad weather and miserable cold we endured this winter and spring, we can now enjoy those picnics and barbeques.

In a piece of work carried out by the Carbohydrate Metabolism Research Team of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology , the discovery has been made of the way in which the glgS gene acts in bacteria and how the mechanisms involved in bacterial infection can be altered by manipulating this gene, which indirectly affects glycogen production.

"If you have ants in your house," the great Harvard ecologist EO Wilson once said , "be kind to them."

At least 9 million people a year in the U.S. suffer from a foodborne illness caused by a major pathogen, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health workers in Erie and Ottawa counties have begun taking water samples at local beaches, testing for the presence of large numbers of E. coli bacteria.

High water levels have forced the closure of several facilities at Red Rock Lake and could be related to high bacteria levels found at one beach, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Nevada Department of Conservation & Natural Resources says bacteriological test indicate that E. coli and other coliform bacteria are not present in the water system.

JONESBORO, AR - Lake Ponder at Crowley's Ridge State Park is once again open to swimmers after being closed due to E. coli.

Residents in the southeast Oklahoma town of Asher have been told to boil their water because it's contaminated with fecal coliform, or E. coli.