How does flour cause a Salmonella outbreak?

On May 1, the FDA and CDC announced that an investigation is underway to find the source of an outbreak of Salmonella Infantis infections linked to raw Gold Medal flour. On April 28, General Mills recalled the flour products linked to the outbreak.

Leaving no health agency unburned

The turning of the political screw

CDC director Robert Redfield: Too smooth to be true

Mexican papayas outbreak highlights need for better import monitoring

CSPI advises consumers to avoid romaine lettuce until FDA discloses retailers

The Food and Drug Administration should publish the names of retailers who received romaine lettuce covered in the recent Fresh Express recall. The romaine was implicated in a Cyclospora outbreak traced to McDonald’s salads. So far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 286 people in 15 states have become ill in the outbreak. There have been 11 hospitalizations and no deaths.

CSPI urges administration not to appoint Dr. Robert Redfield, with history of scientific misconduct, as CDC director

President Trump is reportedly likely to nominate Robert Redfield of the University of Maryland to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This appointment would be disastrous for at least three reasons.

CSPI welcomes resignation of CDC director Brenda Fitzgerald

In the time leading up to her appointment of the agency that leads the charge on health issues such as tobacco control and thereafter, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald should have been actively divesting herself of holdings that posed a conflict of interest. Inexplicably, she decided to make matters even worse—at a time when her existing holdings were already drawing scrutiny.

CDC foodborne illness data show why proposed food safety budget cuts make no sense

Americans guzzling too much soda, despite declines