MARION – The Ohio State University is seeking Marion County families to help with a food safety study that researchers hope will lead to revisions of the nation’s food safety guidelines.
Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center is studying the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, which causes the food-borne illness listeriosis.
Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) is a foodborne disease-causing bacteria; the disease is called listeriosis. Listeria can invade the body through a normal and intact gastrointestinal tract. Once in the body, Listeria can travel through the blood stream but the bacteria are often found inside cells. Listeria also produces toxins that damage cells. Listeria invades and grows
Cochise County health officials are warning residents about risks associated with eating cheese made from milk that has not been pasteurized.
Queso fresco and other Mexican-style soft cheeses made from unpasteurized milk can contain listeria bacteria, the source of a dangerous and sometimes fatal food borne infection called listeriosis. The county Health Department is launching
Imagine going to your doctor with joint pain and leaving with a prescription for ginger.
Before the advent of synthetic drugs, that might have happened. Herbs and spices have a long history as folk medicine, and not without merit.
Today, researchers are working to quantify their health benefits.
"We don’t have enough evidence to say
The Los Angeles Times reported on Cleugh’s Frozen Foods’ recent recall of frozen strawberries sold to Jamba Juice locations in Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California between November 25 and December 1 due to Listeria contamination. The potentially-contaminated strawberries were served in smoothies at Jamba Juice before the recall, and Jamba Juice issued its own alert
Mexico’s queso fresco can cause serious disease
Crumbly, soft queso fresco — a type of homemade, fresh white cheese — is a signature favorite in Mexico that is now available in many U.S. supermarkets.
However, consuming queso fresco imported from Mexico could make you gravely ill, officials warn. And outbreaks of severe illness are continuing
For the second time this month, a Norfolk food packer has voluntarily recalled its mixed fruit product.
The owner of Krisp-Pak tells Your NewsChannel 3 that one sample of the mixed fruit tested positive for listeria. Of the 49 samples sent out for testing, only one came back positive Monday. The samples were taken from
After HoneyBaked Foods Inc. of Toledo issued a voluntary recall for certain hams and sliced and glazed turkey breasts on Wednesday, officials decided to open their store on Merger Drive for part of yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day holiday.
“We didn’t want people driving up and saying, ‘They’re not here,’” Craig Kurz, an officer and shareholder of
Leftovers. Some of us revere them (especially at this time of year); others revile them. They can be the bane of an empty nester’s kitchen — or provide daily alternatives to fast food lunches.
My daughter called me the other night from her UConn apartment kitchen complaining that her father had suggested she buy a
Seventeen people in Los Angeles County have contracted the bacterial food-borne illness listeriosis, including two pregnant women who had stillbirths, health officials said Tuesday.
The number of cases — tracked between August and November — is nearly double the number reported during the same period last year, officials said.
The increase in cases does not
