Editor’s Note:  The following remembrance of the Jack-in-the-Box E. coli outbreak was penned by our Publisher Bill Marler and first posted in Food Poison Journal on Dec. 26.   We are republishing it here on the eve of one of the most infamous outbreaks of all time.

Shaken by apple recalls back East for Listeria contamination, Washington State’s large apple industry has pinned its hopes for staying pathogen free on research.

Ines Hanrahan, the post-harvest physiologist at the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, told the Capital Press tha...

International distributor Barentz has acquired Serbian functional protein supplier Soforebo to expand its market share in the Balkans.

The acquisition will bring Soforebo Commerce's functional animal-based proteins under Barentz's portfolio.

Vice president of Barentz food and nutr...

I'n May of 2016, Hormel Foods bought Justin’s and the CEO said that Justin’s further balances their portfolio towards health conscious consumers.

In September of this year, Nestle USA bought Sweet Earth and the CEO said this is in line with modern health trends and is one of t...

German hard discounter Aldi was not taking unfair advantage of the denomination Champagne when it sold a sorbet containing origin-protected Champagne, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

Aldi Süd stocked the ‘Champagner Sorbet’  back in 2012 as a promotion...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out with its report card of “key 2017 achievements in protecting public health, preventing foodborne illness and promoting confidence in the U.S. food supply.”

In 2017, FSIS says it ...

Two days before Christmas, Scotland’s troubled Errington Cheese Ltd. recalled all batches, all sizes, and all date codes of its Dunsyre Blue cheese because the product contains Listeria monocytogenes.

The recall notice puts Errington’s Dunsyre Blue back in the news just two mo...

Already the focus of two warning letters from Health Canada this year, Lithium orotate is a “questionable ingredient” used in some products for treating psychiatric disorders. However, NutraIngredients says that similar products are sold ‘south of the border’, and contain ...

A study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found the natural decline in lung function over a 10-year period was slower among former smokers with a diet high in tomatoes and fruits, especially apples, suggesting certain components in these foods might help restore lung damage...