Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?
All Videos for Fecal Contamination
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Meat Consumption & the Development of Type 1 Diabetes
Eating meat during breastfeeding is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, perhaps a consequence of meat glycotoxins or paratuberculosis bacteria that may be passed though breast milk.
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C. difficile Superbugs in Meat
Why does the United States appear to have the highest level of C. diff contamination of the meat supply?
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Antibiotics: Agribusinesses’ Pound of Flesh
The FDA’s suggestion that the meat industry voluntarily stop feeding antibiotics by the ton to farm animals to fatten them faster falls short of the changes needed to forestall the epidemic of antibiotic resistance.
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Infectobesity: Adenovirus 36 & Childhood Obesity
Studies on more than a thousand children suggest that a viral infection may play a role in childhood obesity by increasing both the number and size of fat cells.
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Is Meat Glue Safe?
Used in about eight million pounds of meat every year in the United States, the “meat glue” enzyme, transglutaminase, has potential food safety and allergy implications.
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Chicken Salmonella Thanks to Meat Industry Lawsuit
The meat industry sued the federal government, winning the right to sell food known to be contaminated with food-poisoning bacteria.
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Foster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks
Foster Farms chicken may have infected and sickened more than 10,000 people, due to contamination of the meat with fecal material.
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Norovirus Food Poisoning from Pesticides
Organic produce may present less of a food safety risk, given the potential contamination of pesticides with fecal pathogens.
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Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken
The level of multidrug antibiotic-resistant bacteria contamination is compared between meat from animals raised conventionally, and certified organic meat from animals raised without being fed antibiotics.
