Federal and public health officials in multiple states are investigating an outbreak of E. coli infections linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A recent ground beef recall involving more than 22,000 pounds of product is drawing renewed attention to ongoing concerns about food safety testing in the United States.

E. coli bacteria are typically harmless, but certain strains, known as Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC), can cause serious illness in poultry, leading to significant financial losses and animal welfare ...

Last fall, more than 100 people in 14 states got sick after eating at McDonald’s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention traced the outbreak to raw onions on the quarter-pounder hamburger, ...

More people have gotten sick and hospitalized from the deadly germ E. Coli after eating at McDonald's. At least 90 people have become ill, 27 have been hospitalized and one person has died from the ...

Researchers have found that nanoplastics make foodborne bacteria like E. coli O157:H7 stronger, increasing their dangers to people. According to the report, nanoplastics are everywhere. The ...

Antibiotics usually save lives—but against some bacteria, they can make things worse. That’s the case with the Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli, where bacterial death releases a flood of a ...

Clusters of nanoplastics (red arrows) bind to E. coli O157:H7. Award winning image by Jayashree Nath, first author of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study. Banerjee’s team found that ...