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January 16, 2023The BCRC Celebrates 25 Years of Beef Industry Research 2023 marks 25 years for the BCRC as Canada’s national industry-led funding agency for beef,...
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August 10, 2022Getting the Dirt on Cleaning Versus Disinfecting Clean and disinfect against pathogens entering and spreading through your animals, saving you...
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December 14, 2020Are E. coli Really Becoming More Heat Resistant? This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the...
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November 19, 2020Do Cattle Bacteria Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance in Human Medicine? This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director,...
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November 19, 2018Your Burgers Are Still Done at 71 This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of...
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October 5, 2018Developing Faster, Less Expensive Diagnostic Tests This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the...
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November 21, 2016Non-O157 STEC This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen...
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April 18, 2016Dry Chilling (and two other things) This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the April 2016 issue of...
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August 28, 2015Consumer MisReports Consumer Reports Food Safety and Sustainability Center released its “Beef Report” on August 25. A number of questions,...
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March 16, 2015Hot Water Treatment of Beef Trim This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the March 2015 issue of...
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November 24, 2014Practical and Effective Food Safety Procedures for Beef Packing Plants Recent work has shown that E. coli can essentially be eliminated from dressed...
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October 21, 2014Flipping for Mechanically Tenderized Beef This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the October 2014...
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September 12, 2014Understanding Non-0157 STEC Associated with Cattle and Beef Carcasses The food safety risks associated with E. coli O157:H7 are well established and...
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February 18, 2014Beam Me Up This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Canadian Cattlemen...
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January 17, 2014Bug Spray for Beef? This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the January 2014 issue of Canadian...
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December 16, 2013Better Housekeeping This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the December 2013 issue of Canadian...
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November 18, 2013More Than One Way to Skin a Cow This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the November 2013 issue of...
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June 7, 2013On-farm E. coli O157:H7 Control? Editor's note: Following the recent release of the Independent Review of XL Foods Inc. Beef Recall 2012, we thought...
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May 24, 2013How do Carcass Processing Procedures Impact Food Safety? Canadian beef packing plants have progressively and effectively modified their processes over...
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May 21, 2013E-beam Irradiation Research: New Fact Sheet and Video Irradiation is approved for food treatment in over 50 countries. In Canada, irradiation is...
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April 29, 2013Revisiting Irradiation This article written by Dr. Reynold Bergen, BCRC Science Director, originally appeared in the January 2013 issue of Canadian...
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February 11, 2013Food Safety Research on Mechanically Tenderized Beef This is a guest post written by Mark Klassen, Director of Technical Services for the Canadian...
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November 5, 2012Latest Results from Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance The Public Health Agency of Canada has completed its most recent report on the Canadian...
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October 5, 2012E. coli O157:H7: an Industry Research Priority E. coli O157:H7, the cause for the recent, extensive beef recall, is one of the few types of E. coli...
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