Floridians are encouraged to use this information to make informed decisions about their health and sources of raw milk ...

KANSAS CITY — When E. coli O157:H7 made headlines in the 1990s and posed a threat to consumer health, especially consumers of ground beef and hamburger, meat processors thought first they had ...

Scientists wonder why some people get so sick and even die after being infected by the foodborne pathogen E. coli O157:H7, while others experience much milder symptoms and recover relatively ...

The culprit in both cases was a highly pathogenic serotype (subspecies) of E. coli bacteria, named O157:H7, that can reside in the digestive systems of beef and dairy cattle and other animals, who ...

United Food Group, a Vernon-based meatpacker, is expanding its June 3 recall of ground beef products that may be contaminated with a potentially deadly E. coli pathogen.

The N-60 system requires USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to remove 60 pieces of product from a lot so they can be tested for pathogens such as E. coli.

In an expanding effort by the meat industry to make its hamburger safe, officials at the retail giant Costco said Wednesday that they had struck a new accord on testing for the pathogen E. coli.