There is no doubt that these occurrences of microbial contamination are a failure of one or more elements of contamination control. Perhaps it was an inadvertent ...

Researchers and therapeutic manufacturers have long relied on classical microbiological methods to check their samples and surfaces for microbial contamination, primarily using lengthy ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 48 million people in the United States get sick from foodborne illnesses each year. Of these, approximately 128,000 ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Additional nasal sprays are being recalled, federal health officials say, expanding a nationwide recall issued last week. A notice shared by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ...

The maker of Robitussin has issued a recall due to “microbial contamination.” Microbial contamination means that a microbe has gotten into something that it shouldn’t. Using the affected products can ...

Chicken and ground turkey showed the highest contamination rates for Salmonella and Campylobacter—the two bacteria most commonly associated with foodborne illness. Nearly 1 in 4 bacterial isolates ...