McDonald’s shares plunged as much as 6% Wednesday after an outbreak of E. coli that sickened almost 50 people and killed one was linked to the Golden Arches’ famous Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The ...

Several years ago, I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in the Box E.

In 1994, in response to an E. coli outbreak linked to ground beef sold at Jack in the Box restaurants, FSIS established an E. coli sampling program which treated E. coli as an adulterant. Shortly ...

Jack in the Box announced it will close up to 200 of its restaurants. The decision comes as part of its “JACK on Track” plan to “improve long-term financial performance,” the company said in an April ...

Ten people have been hospitalized and one elderly individual in Colorado has died following E. coli infections linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ...