CHICAGO — Sophia Leung sees the potential of probiotics in baked foods within her own household. “It’s a lot more appealing to have probiotics in something like a muffin than probiotic supplements, or ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture has received confirmation of an anthrax positive in a beef herd in Cassia County.

Our days of crying over spoiled milk could be over, thanks to food scientists. Milk undergoes heat treatment -- pasteurization -- to kill off microbes that can cause food spoilage and disease, but ...

When spore-forming bacteria, such as Bacillus or Clostridium, enter a state of starvation, they transform into a state of dormancy in order to survive. No other life form is as difficult to eliminate ...

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance, Manufacturing Biological Intermediates and Biological Drug Substances Using Spore-Forming Microorganisms, which provides recommendations ...

Because natural resources are always limited, the right strategy decides about success in life. This also applies to spore-forming bacteria. Bacillus subtilis can survive unfavorable living conditions ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) has received confirmation of an anthrax positive in a beef herd in Cassia County. Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a naturally occurring ...