Items Tagged with 'e. coli'

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to have growers of leafy greens and other fruits and vegetables conduct “comprehensive assessments” of pre-harvest agricultural water, replacing the current requirement in FDA's 2015 Produce Safety Rule for microbial water quality testing.

FDA is proposing new record-keeping requirements for food traceability to speed up investigations during outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.

LGMA has launched a new subcommittee to investigate the role of adjacent lands in outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.

Cattle grazing near romaine lettuce fields is “the most likely contributing factor associated with” E. coli outbreaks last fall, says FDA.

The Food and Drug Administration has identified one farm in California as a likely source of E. coli-tainted romaine lettuce that sickened 62 people in 16 states and the District of Columbia last fall, but can't rule out if others were involved.

Lawmakers face a Friday deadline to pass a new stopgap funding bill as they struggle to reach agreement on immigration and tax issues as well as a disaster bill that would include new assistance for farmers.