food-safety
2 stories tagged "food-safety"
Infectious Disease
The Gut Lining Starves Salmonella of Iron, a Trick We Thought Only Immune Cells Knew
Salmonella sickens more than a million Americans a year. University of Vermont researchers found the cells it invades fight back by withholding the iron and manganese the bacteria need, a defense the textbooks credited mainly to immune cells.
Nutrition & FoodWHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.
WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.