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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will travel to Japan to promote U.S. exports next month.
Secretary Vilsack will meet
On Monday, Australia lifted its nine-year ban on imported meat from countries where cows had tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or “Mad Cow” disease. While it will be
Vietnam’s Administration for Food Safety and Hygiene Department, part of the Ministry of Health, recently announced that 2,000 inspection teams nationwide detected 13,000 food hygiene violations in
Food products produced in un-licensed kitchens that have not been inspected by public health inspectors or certified as meeting food safety standards may soon be available at farmers’ markets, roadside
Last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a report on anticholingeric poisoning from the consumption of jimsonweed in July
Hero baby formula has been recalled in the United Arab Emerites (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for potential contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii).
The recalls
The Vietnam National Assembly Standing Committee rejected Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu’s proposal to set up a National Committee for Food Safety last week. The proposed committee would
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday that Park 100 Foods, Inc. of Kokomo, Ind., was recalling approximately 19,200 pounds of frozen chicken pot pie products due
Members of the Wyoming Governor’s Council on Food Safety are planning to send letters to Gov. Dave Freudenthal and legislators cautioning against an expansion of the cottage food exemption
In January 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) issued a policy statement to endorse 2005 recommendations for preventing SIDS, update parents
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that the agency will provide $25 million in grants to help schools participating in the National School Lunch Program replace outdated
Eighteen people who became ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after eating at the Ixtapa Family Mexican Restaurant in Lake Stevens, Washington, in October of 2008 filed a lawsuit
