I've succumbed to some clickbait titling here, I'm sorry, but we really need to have a discussion about this. There's a fallacy running wild in food, and it's company owners, consumers, some
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L. monocytogenes on Oxford Agar. Source: wikipedia commons author Nathan Reading So I know that all of you who subscribe to Fur, Farm, and Fork do so for the meticulously researched analysis of
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At FF&F, I'm often harsh on FDA for lack of enforcement, ownership of their own role in preventive food safety, and failing to consistently stand by their guidance. However, you will still see me
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Image created by Austin Bouck. Dear god let there be no egregious mistakes... Recently a podcast I often listen to has discussed several articles with a similar note in their conclusions. Nearly
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I would be remiss in the goal of this blog if I didn't do some digging into the form 483 that was just released by FDA this week following a recall for canned dog food containing Pentobarbital. For
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I was perusing the Bad Bug Book while doing some research on the recent Blue Bell outbreak and came across a hyperlink. After hearing "do you want to know more?" in my head, I clicked through on
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While it's not an animal product, the Listeriosis outbreak recently traced to apples is just as relevant to the food industry as a whole as any other food-borne illness outbreak. While I was looking
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It has been far too long since I wrote a blog post. Look out internet, I have a blogging itch that needs scratching, and it’ll probably cause a rash! …I apologize for that mental image. The
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Shigella penetrating the intestinal wall. Source: cellimagelibrary.org If the world was enriched and homogenized, we would actually have a very good idea of what the microbiological community
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This is the first study I've found that was interested in cataloging bacterial diversity among subclinical (or asymptomatic) infections. While they may be less threatening to the animal's overall