Considering all the times you’ve eaten food in your life so far, you’ve probably got a pretty good track record for avoiding ...

They’re a recipe for an abdominal apocalypse. While food poisoning can have many sources, certain foods can make mealtime seem like playing intestinal roulette. A new survey by Consumer Reports has ...

An expert has urged vigilance to keep ever-changing and emerging viruses out of food. Jeffrey LeJeune said it is not possible to predict the type, timing or location of the emergence of the next ...

There's a lot you can do at home -- and when dining out -- to decrease your risk of foodborne illness. Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. As a salmonella outbreak ...

Six Americans have died and more than 20 others have been sickened in a growing listeria outbreak linked to prepackaged pasta meals. It is upsetting, but not surprising. I worked on food safety at the ...

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About 800 foodborne illness outbreaks occur in the United States every year, sickening more than 15,000 people, with one of the most frequent causes of contamination coming from animal or ...

Foodborne illnesses skyrocketed in 2024, but oversight failures mean the problem could get even worse. Micheline Maynard has focused on the business world for much of her career. Also known as Micki, ...

Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. Just in case you weren’t already worried enough about the state of our food ...

The CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, will trim its tracking of foodborne infections from eight pathogens to only two: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing ...