Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S. The find... Read more
New approach produces 20 percent survival rate in rat model where few typically live Biomedical engineers at Duke University have recruited an unlikely ally in the fight against the deadlies... Read more
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed a vaccine against salmonella poisoning designed to be taken by mouth. The findings are detailed in an arti... Read more
Exposing packaged liquids, fruits and vegetables to an electrical field for just minutes might eliminate all traces of foodborne pathogens on those foods, according to a Purdue University st... Read more
A scientist describes his unconventional approach to food safety A cow’s rumen has an incredibly thick population of microbes, somewhere between 10 billion and 100 billion microbes pe... Read more
Past studies have shown that plasma could successfully reduce pathogens on the surface of fruits and vegetables without cooking them. A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel Univers... Read more
A new target for nitric oxide has been revealed in studies of how it inhibits the growth of Salmonella. This bacterium is a common cause of food-poisoning. “Nitric oxide is naturally p... Read more
THE bean sprouts contaminated with a particularly nasty strain of Escherichia coli, a bug that normally lives quietly in the gut of humans and other animals, have now sickened over 3,250 peo... Read more
On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. Read more
Cover via Amazon Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture. When... Read more