Sam's Club warehouse stores across the United States are recalling a brand of ground beef patties made by Cargill Inc., following reports that four children who ate the patties became sick with E. coli.

Food and baby products have been in recall very frequently recently. Every day one opens the internet or TV there is one kind of recall. Now it's Campbell, which announced Campbell soup recall due to hard plastic inside the soup cans. I don't know where these products are made, but I am worried about the low quality products (that are designed to increase profitability) that hit the US consumer markets.

A recent survey shows that American consumers are skeptical about the safety of the global food system and many believe that local foods are safer and better for their health than foods from afar.

Certain Lunch boxes are not safe for children. Lunch boxes used as nutrition education items have elevated levels of lead. Do not use CDPH Lunch Boxes.

Last August German police discovered about 50 tons of rotten meat on the premises of a wholesaler in Bavaria. Because the risk of rotten meat turning up in grocery stores everywhere is not to be underestimated, the importance of efficient food quality monitoring is clear.

Low salt foods are just as safe or safer than high salt level products in spite of expectations that cutting salt levels in food would increase the risk of spoilage by bacteria, say scientists today at the Society for General Microbiology's 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Cooked ham could soon be given a 39 day shelf life, according to scientists speaking today at the Society or General Microbiology's 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Monitoring of pig carcasses and pig meat in slaughterhouses, butchers’ premises and retail outlets will be undertaken in Ireland over the next two years in an attempt to determine how a human disease causing bacteria, Yersinia enterocolitica, enters the food chain, scientists announced today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Nearly 100 children have been hospitalized in Russia's southern Stavropol Krai with dysentery believed to be caused by food poisoning. Reporting from the region, RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Lada Ledenyova said 203 children between 1 1/2 and 6 years old have fallen ill. Of them, 97 have been hospitalized.

The rise in year-round consumption of fresh leafy greens such as lettuce and baby spinach is increasing the difficulty of keeping produce free from contamination by food poisoning bacteria, according to US scientists speaking today (Monday 3 September 2007) at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Unsafe food at the very least can make people ill. At the very worst, it can be fatal. Last year, supermarkets in the United States removed fresh spinach from their shelves after three people died and nearly 200 were sickened by E. coli carried by the spinach.

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for approximately 41,305 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, that were produced at Interstate Meat Dist., Inc., a Clackamas, Ore., establishment.