Diamond Pet Foods, the company behind a massive recall of dry dog food due to Salmonella contamination that has sickened at least 16 people, was not taking "all reasonable precautions" to ensure the safety of its product, according to the...
Multiple tools to find and track Listeria are proving successful, even though the rare pathogen was responsible last year for the most deadly outbreak of foodborne illness in decades.Dr. Barbara Mahon from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Thirty enthusiastic moms from across the United States gathered in Washington Tuesday to lobby for greater limits on antibiotics used in food animal production.Organized by the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming and the American Academy of Pediatrics,...
Public health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak in the Canadian province of New Brunswick named Jungle Jim's Eatery as the likely common link on Tuesday, according to CBC News. The province's health department confirmed 13 people infected with E. coli...
Public health officials in South Carolina are investigating an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to a Spartanburg-area Mexican restaurant. At least 11 people have confirmed or suspected infections.Out of three victims interviewed thus far, two infections have progressed into...
Healthy food advocates took to Capitol Hill last week to show lawmakers and their staff that school food can be cooked from scratch, healthy and antibiotic-free -- without spending a lot of money. Six high school students from the Chicago...
The 35th Annual National Food Policy Conference, organized by Consumer Federation of America, will take place May 17-18 in Washington, DC. Food policy experts and stakeholders from consumer groups, the food industry and the federal government will debate and discuss...
63 people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and New York have fallen ill from a rare strain of Salmonella linked to spore culture used to make unpasteurized tempeh by North Carolina food producer Smiling Hara.The outbreak strain of...
Long in the making, the start-up date for USDA's new Public Health Information System (PHIS) is now just two weeks away on May 29. It will replace the Performance Based Inspection System at all regulated USDA establishments and for all...
As the case count continues to rise in the nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to raw tuna, an inspection by U.S. health officials has revealed unsanitary conditions at the India facility that produced the implicated tuna product. On April 19, about a...
Only a floor vote in the Missouri Senate may stand between Gov. Jay Nixon's desk and a bill making fraud and interference new crimes if carried out at agricultural facilities, a so-called "ag-gag" law.House Bill 1860, adopted by the Missouri...
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced a series of prevention-based food safety policy measures, including a final rule designed to make FSIS aware of adulterated or misbranded food in the supply chain that is similar to FDA's...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is celebrating the first anniversary of Mobile Ask Karen (m.AskKaren.gov), a mobile app that "allows consumers to ask food safety questions at any time of day, instantly from their...
Australia is set to OK the sale of some hard, grating cheeses made from unpasteurized milk, but Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) says raw drinking milk "presents too high a risk" to consider its commerce.The change for some raw...
With growing concern over antibiotic resistance, public health advocates have long pushed for more responsible use of these drugs -- both in human medicine and animal agriculture -- but there is one piece of the antibiotics puzzle that has...
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