Consumer Reports Guides Shoppers Through Produce Pesticide Residues By Lydia Zuraw  Each year, the Environmental Working Group releases guides to help shoppers pick fruits and vegetables with the fewest pesticide residues. Consumer Reports' Food Safety and Sustainability Center has now released similar guidelines. According to the organization's survey conducted in November 2014, pesticide exposure in food is a concern for 85 percent of Americans. For its... Continue Reading
Could Glowing Fish Help Improve Food Safety? By News Desk  A startup in Hong Kong is hoping to use light-up fish embryos to improve food safety. The company, Vitargent, engineered medaka and zebrafish embryos to turn fluorescent green or develop tumors in the presence of harmful substances called Estrogenic Endocrine Disruptors (EEDs). The technology can screen for more than 1,000 chemicals such as DDT and... Continue Reading
Harvard Study: Electrically Charged Water Can Fight Foodborne Pathogens By News Desk  “Nanosized” droplets of electrically charged water have been shown to inactivate pathogens on the surface of food and could one day become an environmentally friendly way to make food safer. That’s according to a study from researchers at Harvard University published in Environmental Science and Technology and reported on by Chemical & Engineering News. The researchers say that... Continue Reading
Foodborne Illness Responsible for Lightfoot Concert Cancellations By News Desk  Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot Jr. has cancelled his remaining U.S. tour dates for March because he is reportedly recovering from being hospitalized last week with a foodborne illness. His doctors expect the 77-year-old Lightfoot to fully recover, and the tour dates are being re-booked, mostly for late May. It was almost 40 years ago that the man... Continue Reading
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It looks like the apple, and not the caramel, is getting the blame for the deadly multistate outbreak of Listeriosis linked to caramel apples that occurred late last year. The outbreak sickened 35 people in 12 states, requiring hospitalization for all but one victim. Seven of the sickened people died. Canada also reported an additional case... 
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