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Lawmakers Push Two Food Safety Bills After FRONTLINE Investigation
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced bills to strengthen the USDA's authority to protect consumers from contaminated meat and poultry.
May 13, 2015
What Happens After a Foodborne Illness Outbreak?
When an outbreak happens, it usually falls to the FDA or the USDA to ensure the contaminated food isn't entering the market. What are their options?
May 13, 2015
Are You Handling Raw Chicken The Wrong Way?
A recent study found that while preparing to cook their chicken, people often make mistakes that can lead to them unknowingly contaminating their kitchen.
May 12, 2015
Can We Get to Zero Salmonella in Poultry?
Consumer advocates have been calling for zero tolerance of dangerous types of salmonella in poultry in order to reduce the number of people who get sick from the bacteria each year. But can we ever get to zero?
May 12, 2015
Two Agencies, Two Salmonella Standards. Would One Be Better?
Salmonella is banned in walnuts and tomatoes, but is still allowed in raw chicken. Could a proposed government agency bridge the divide in safety standards?
May 12, 2015
Why That Ground Chicken Burger May Not Be As Healthy As You Think
Ground chicken may be healthier than ground beef, but there's also a downside -- specifically, heightened odds of salmonella poisoning and large-scale outbreaks.
May 12, 2015
WATCH: When It Comes to Food Safety, How a Whole Chicken Differs From the Sum of Its Parts
Eighty percent of chicken sold today has been cut up into parts -- a process that can release salmonella buried in the skin. But government inspections mainly focus on whole chickens.
May 12, 2015
Inside the Fast-Food Scandal That Changed How Beef Is Regulated
More than 20 years ago, four children were killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157 -- a dangerous strain of bacteria that was linked back to undercooked hamburgers from Jack in the Box fast food restaurants.
May 11, 2015
What Is It Like Reporting from the Center of an Ebola Outbreak?
The Ebola crisis was still raging when filmmakers Dan Edge and Sasha J. Achilli travelled there in September to start work on the FRONTLINE investigation, "Outbreak."
May 6, 2015
Meet a Nurse Who Survived Ebola, then Went Back to the Outbreak
When Will Pooley contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, he was volunteering at a treatment center nicknamed "the terror dome." He could have left anytime, but "I wouldn’t have been able to look myself in the eye," he says.
May 5, 2015
Ending the Ebola Crisis: The View From Inside Doctors Without Borders
The international president of Doctors Without Borders says she's been in some of the worst war zones there are, but nothing compared to the death she witnessed during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
May 5, 2015
Was Ebola Outbreak an Exception Or Was it a Precedent?
Bruce Aylward, who helped lead the WHO's response to the Ebola outbreak, says the crisis in West Africa is "reflecting the way the world is changing in ways that we don’t fully understand."
May 5, 2015