Ellen Shumaker, a food safety expert at North Carolina State University, explains your refrigerator is one of the most important tools in avoiding the unwanted party guest: harmful bacteria.

Access to sufficient amounts of safe food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Foodborne illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature and often invisible to the plain eye ...

By Alice MooreAlabama Extension ServiceThe birds are singing, the sun is shining, and the flowers are blooming—it’s the ...

K-State food scientist Karen Blakeslee says home food preservation, when done correctly, can save money by reducing food ...

Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water before, during, and after handling food. Clean and sanitize any surfaces that have touched raw turkey and its juices and will later ...

In order to separate hysteria from common sense, WebMD connected Chris with Greg Burke, a pediatric physician's assistant who knows a thing or two about how food-borne illnesses can take hold ...

Typical symptoms of foodborne illness, also known as food poisoning, are vomiting, diarrhea, and flu-like symptoms, which can ...

However, much more could be done to make it result-focused and risk-based. There is no single answer to food safety issues but international experience provides many tested ideas which, in the right ...