Veteran journalist with 15+ years covering food safety. Dan has reported for newspapers across the West and earned Associated Press recognition for deadline reporting. At FSN, he serves as Senior Editor and covers foodborne illness policy.
If USDA was not the government, would the law look at the way it uses the “organic” label as “misbranding” or possibility a claim that it just cannot substantiate?
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Federal officials have gone to court to prevent a Brooklyn company from any further processing and distributing of its juice products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), represented
A Nanaimo cannery on Canada’s Vancouver Island could see its canned sockeye salmon blocked from entry to the United States if it does not quickly fix its low-acid canning
What happens to lettuce leaves and other leafy greens that become contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and then suffer insect or mechanical damage?
Can the bacteria then become internalized,
A Quebec pork processor twice named as one of Canada’s best-managed companies is being fined $62,000 for multiple violations of the federal Meat Inspection Act.
The Court of
Pickled herring, pickled wild salmon, and smoked salmon—all refrigerated products–from a Washington state seafood processor are all adulterated or impure, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Uncooked oysters from Canada’s Pacific Coast have been confirmed as the source of a norovirus outbreak. according to the British Columbia Center for Disease Control.
Oysters making people ill
In testimony prepared for a Wyoming Legislature public hearing, one of the Cowboy State’s top local health officials tells lawmakers to just say no to exemptions.
Robert E. Harrington,
Choices can be difficult.
Our neighbors down in “The Springs” decided a couple of years ago to nix a tax increase for many things, including keeping the lights on at
Seafood processing facilities located in New Mexico and Ohio were found with serious violations of the federal seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations.
The two companies, Above
Twenty years after Congress put the federal government in the business of promoting pesticide and chemical free agriculture, USDA’s Organic label is now a trusted symbol.
Few consumers, however,
If your kids were looking for reasons not to eat their fruits and vegetables, you better hope they were not watching the popular daytime TV show “Dr. Oz” last Friday.
