Microbes or chemical contaminants may enter the food chain at any point from farm to fork, causing foodborne illnesses. Different factors such as an individual's susceptibility and a microbe’s ...

About 800 foodborne illness outbreaks occur in the United States every year, sickening more than 15,000 people, with one of the most frequent causes of contamination coming from animal or ...

New research shows there were 9.9 million domestically acquired foodborne illnesses in the United States in 2019. The most recent data available before this was published in 2011. By estimating the ...

Researchers show how advanced sequencing and natural compounds are shaping the ongoing fight against deadly foodborne diseases, from Listeria hiding in biofilms to frankincense smoke killing harmful ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a ...

The CDC is scaling back its FoodNet program, cutting active monitoring of six foodborne illnesses including listeria, shigella and vibrio, while continuing to track only salmonella and E. coli. Health ...