Virginia Department of Health officials are continuing to investigate an E. coli outbreak at a popular Boy Scouts camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains that has affected 17 people so far.

The officials began receiving reports of sick children Sunday, when boys from about 70 troops and some adults returned home after a week at the Goshen Scout Reservation near Lexington, VA. Most of the scouts are from northern Virginia, and one of the confirmed cases involves a Maryland adult

Almost a week after discovering a nationwide salmonella outbreak was caused by jalapeńos and not tomatoes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has narrowed down its warning to Mexico-grown peppers only.

In a statement released Friday, the FDA said jalapeńo and serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with the current salmonella saintpaul outbreak and that only Mexico-grown produce should be avoided

United States Environmental Protection Agency officials told AHN Media Corp. on Friday that the proposed ban on detectable residue of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops it announced Thursday is only the beginning because the agency plans to ban use of carbofuran in the future.

Carbofuran is a broad spectrum insecticide sprayed directly onto soil and plants just after the plant emerges to control beetles, nematodes and rootworm

More than 4,000 people in Denmark may be infected with salmonella in what may become the worst outbreak there in 15 years, health officials said Wednesday.

Urgent checks are being conducted to find the source of a salmonella outbreak that officials say may be caused by a food product distributed only in Denmark but no single source has yet been named

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to widen its search in the salmonella outbreak investigation by including other produce items on its list of suspects.

The decision to include other fresh produce commonly consumed with tomatoes comes as the FDA is under growing pressure to step up efforts to trace the source of the contamination. The salmonella outbreak has sickened at least 869 people, including 107 who have been hospitalized, in 36 states and Washington, D.C