Ellen Shumaker, a food safety expert at North Carolina State University, explains your refrigerator is one of the most important tools in avoiding the unwanted party guest: harmful bacteria.

Thursday is Thanksgiving, and gathering to share a meal is often the highlight. But foodborne illnesses can ruin even the best feasts.

As a food safety attorney who handles cases of E. coli, salmonella, and campylobacter outbreaks, Bill Marler thinks about food, a lot, especially around foodie holidays like Thanksgiving. "Do not, under any circumstance,

A lot of energy goes into preparing a Thanksgiving meal. Recently though, several widely used food items have been recalled over illness outbreaks and potential contamination, from organic carrots, to milk,