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(AP) -- Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a government report released Thursday. http://phys.org/news158504012.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:54:09 EST news158504012 (AP) -- Federal officials confirmed Monday they found traces of salmonella in a central California pistachio processing plant that sparked a nationwide recall of the nut. http://phys.org/news158301005.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:31:04 EST news158301005 (AP) -- A company at the heart of a nationwide pistachio recall says Kraft Foods Inc. detected salmonella in its pistachios more than six months ago but didn't report it until last week. http://phys.org/news157996207.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:50:32 EST news157996207 (AP) -- Authorities looking into the nationwide pistachio recall said Thursday they are investigating a California nut processor's sister company in New York where officials last month found cockroaches and rodent droppings. http://phys.org/news157904722.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:43:59 EST news157904722 (AP) -- A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws. http://phys.org/news157829830.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:39:00 EST news157829830 (AP) -- It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they've already issued a sweeping warning to avoid eating the nuts or foods containing them. http://phys.org/news157783218.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:40:49 EST news157783218 (AP) -- The company at the center of a nationwide pistachio recall says the salmonella contamination could have come from raw nuts during processing but not a human or animal source in its plant. http://phys.org/news157734833.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:14:08 EST news157734833 (AP) -- In another food scare sure to rattle consumers who watched the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts unfold, federal food officials are now warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios, which could carry contamination from the same bacteria. http://phys.org/news157701995.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:07:21 EST news157701995 Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans. http://phys.org/news157038671.html Biology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:51:53 EST news157038671 (AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. http://phys.org/news156957177.html Medicine & Health Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:13:25 EST news156957177 (AP) -- The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. http://phys.org/news156752062.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:15:11 EST news156752062 (AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. http://phys.org/news156663460.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:38:19 EST news156663460 Supermarkets across the country cleared the shelves of more than 2,600 items recalled after salmonella contamination was found in some products made by the Peanut Corp. of America. http://phys.org/news156019935.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:53:01 EST news156019935 (PhysOrg.com) -- Salmonella bacteria research from two recent NASA space missions discovered key elements of the bacteria's disease-causing potential that hold promise for improving ways to fight food-borne infections on Earth. http://phys.org/news156009412.html Biology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:57:50 EST news156009412 A Purdue University researcher has found a way to eliminate bacteria in packaged foods such as spinach and tomatoes, a process that could eliminate worries concerning some food-borne illnesses. http://phys.org/news155230070.html Chemistry Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:28:11 EST news155230070 A new University of Georgia study suggests that health agencies investigating Salmonella illnesses should consider untreated surface water as a possible source of contamination. http://phys.org/news154955667.html Biology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:15:08 EST news154955667 Fewer than one in four consumers now believe the U.S. food supply is safer than it was a year ago, according to new data from the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center. http://phys.org/news154696126.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:09:14 EST news154696126 The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple public health professor Jennifer Ibrahim, Ph.D., says officials need to consider other possible sources of illness. http://phys.org/news154341910.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:51 EST news154341910 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket shelves so far, in what is now the largest food-related recall in the country’s history. http://phys.org/news153597262.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:55:37 EST news153597262 Consumers must remain vigilant about tossing salmonella-tainted peanut products found during a recent outbreak, food safety experts said. A few more people get sick every week. More than 400 products have been recalled, and more products are recalled daily. And last week, the Georgia factory blamed for the outbreak recalled every product made since January 2007, so more items may be pulled from store shelves in coming weeks. http://phys.org/news152808843.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:36 EST news152808843 In the hours following an outbreak of Salmonella, there are many questions. And answers can be hard to find. http://phys.org/news152802866.html Biology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:15:17 EST news152802866 It's as if the whole nation just acquired a peanut allergy. As a salmonella outbreak sickens hundreds of people across the country, federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat products containing peanut butter until they get more information about which products are behind the outbreak. http://phys.org/news152473410.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:19 EST news152473410 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) have investigated public perceptions of the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, the largest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States in over a decade. http://phys.org/news152464793.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:20:52 EST news152464793 One of the major challenges in modern vaccinology is to engineer vectors that are highly infectious, yet don't cause illness. Trickier still is to ensure that such weapons against infectious disease can be safely disarmed, once their immunogenic work is done. Roy Curtiss, an investigator of vaccines and infectious diseases at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, has pursued these goals for 30 years. http://phys.org/news151003976.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:32:56 EST news151003976 Hundreds of trillions of bacteria make their home in the vertebrate gut. Though many of these microbes perform helpful duties for their host, others—the pathogens—are unwelcome visitors, causing disease. http://phys.org/news148736026.html Biology Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:33:46 EST news148736026 A new study in SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that konjac gum and sesame seed extract may offer protection against different strains of E. coli and Salmonella bacteria. http://phys.org/news137149165.html Chemistry Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:59:25 EST news137149165 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an antigen in the body. The researchers report that they have been able to use live salmonella bacterium as the containment/delivery method for an antigen. http://phys.org/news135608681.html Biology Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:04:41 EST news135608681 Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an antigen in the body. The researchers report that they have been able to use live salmonella bacterium as the containment/delivery method for an antigen. http://phys.org/news134745372.html Biology Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:12 EST news134745372