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Skippy Peanut Butter Recall: What You Need to Know

Just bread and jelly today? The makers of Skippy Peanut Butter are recalling a shipment of reduced-fat peanut butter because of a possible salmonella contamination. Luckily, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports that no one has gotten sick from eating the peanut butter, but just to stay on the safe side, Surge...

Food Safety Bill Passed in Senate, With a Side of Pork

(Nov. 30) -- What's cookin'? In a rare case of bipartisanship, the Senate passed a $1.4 billion food safety bill today designed to grant the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over recalls, among other safety measures aimed at preventing dangerous food-borne illness outbreaks. Part of the bill, however,...

Senate Passes Bill to Boost Food Safety

WASHINGTON (Nov. 30) -- The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The $1.4 billion bill, which would...

Long-Stalled Food Safety Bill Advances in Senate

(Nov. 17) -- The Food Safety and Modernization Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the power of the FDA and USDA to regulate food safety, cleared a major hurdle today after spending more than a year stalled on the Senate floor. In September, it seemed that the bill was dead after last-minute opposition from Sen. Tom Coburn,...

Man Behind Summer Egg Recall Linked to November Egg Recall

(Nov. 10) -- The man behind this summer's 550 million egg recall is at it again. Egg seller Cal-Maine announced last week a recall of almost 300,000 eggs potentially infected with salmonella enteritidis, the same culprit as last time. The eggs are linked to the freewheeling poultry cowboy whose produce sickened some...

Background on salmonella

Salmonella () is a genus of rod-shaped, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, predominantly motile enterobacteria with diameters around 0.7 to 1.5 µm, lengths from 2 to 5 µm, and flagella which grade in all directions (i.e.

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