Health officials in Snohomish County, WA, are warning people who ate at two Taco Bell locations to monitor themselves for signs of hepatitis A infections and get vaccinated if they are not already.
“People who
Continue Reading Taco Bell employee infected with hepatitis A; county in Washington issues health alert
The use of social media might be making people smarter, but sadly that does not appear to be true for all topics. There are endless examples of social media being the excuse for all sorts
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Eleven organizations that work closely with the Food and Drug Administration are asking bipartisan congressional leaders to work with them on “several pressing food safety issues this year.”
The eleven who’ve written congressional leaders include:
Continue Reading Food safety groups pitch congressional leaders on the inside game
As the popular children’s poem goes: “This little piggy went to market.”
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized letting gene-edited pigs enter the human food chain, that may be the case for
Continue Reading New World ag on its way: FDA gives initial thumbs up to pork from gene-edited pigs
Local authorities in Missoula, MT, are warning people to not consume raw milk sold at a farmers market because it came from a herd where cows tested positive for Coxiella burnetii, which is the bacteria
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The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO, has announced the first modern-era psilocybin clinical trial for depression. The UC researchers will test whether psilocybin — the chemical compound that produces psychedelic effects
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On the final day of the state’s legislative session, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill to make some sales of raw, unpasteurized milk legal.
The Iowa State Dairy Association opposes the sale of unpasteurized
Continue Reading Raw, unpasteurized milk can now be sold by farmers directly to consumers in Iowa
The European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) based in Parma, Italy last week held a two-day scientific colloquium to gather views and insights from leading scientific minds, representatives of European, international, and national agencies, technology companies, and food
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The chicken industry, represented by the Washington D.C.-based National Chicken Council, is letting the world know it has “grave concerns” about USDA’s plans to declare Salmonella an adulterant in frozen, raw, breaded stuffed poultry products.
Continue Reading The chicken industry has ‘grave concerns’ about the new USDA Salmonella regulation
Fiddleheads, the curled, edible shoots of the ostrich fern, are a seasonal delicacy harvested in many parts of the Northern United States and Canada. Other types of ferns, like foxglove and bracken ferns, are not
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