If you’re a farmer who has something customers want, it only makes sense to do your best to get it to them. Unless, of course, if it’s something that’s illegal to sell in your state
Continue Reading Oregon lawmakers consider retail sales of raw butter
Score a touchdown this year with your Super Bowl LV snacks by keeping bacteria out of the end zone. While your Super Bowl traditions may look different this year given COVID-19 and the need
Continue Reading Keep foodborne illness away from your Super Bowl end zone
The Center for Food Safety is challenging the FDA’s approval of a color additive used to make Impossible Foods’ plant-based burger appear to “bleed” like real meat. The advocacy group claims that the FDA’s decision
Continue Reading Lawsuit challenges FDA approval of additive that makes Impossible Burger ‘bleed’
A Washington State dairy is recalling unpasteurized, raw milk from retailers and consumers after state tests showed a sample was contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. Coli.
Williams Valley Family Farm LLC announced the recall today,
Continue Reading State finds E. coli in raw milk; dairy initiates retail level recall
Have you heard of Tiger Meat or Cannibal Sandwiches? If you’re from Wisconsin, I’m sure you have. I was introduced to this holiday tradition by my fiance’s family, who are all from northern Wisconsin.
This
Continue Reading To avoid pathogens, avoid raw meat, eggs, egg nog and flour this holiday season
The Partnership for Food Safety Education has scheduled its Consumer Food Safety Education (CFSE) Virtual Conference for March 9-12, 2021. It is the only conference in the U.S. dedicated to consumer food safety education.
The
Phyllis Entis’s new book “Tainted” shows readers that when it comes to food safety, conventional wisdom isn’t always enough. As Entis puts it, “the food preparation skills we learned from our parents and
Continue Reading New book ‘Tainted’ tells the real life stories behind the food safety headlines
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environment, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT have developed a process to kill germs on almonds and nuts by using compressed carbon dioxide to decontaminate food.
The advantage of this
Continue Reading Researchers use compressed carbon dioxide to decontaminate almonds and other nuts
Have you ever eaten a dinosaur before?
Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. But more notable than their
Continue Reading ‘Flexitarians’ drive meat-vegetable hybrids toward more marketshare
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that will help protect consumers from the harmful effects of a dangerous class of chemicals linked to serious health problems, according to Consumer Reports.
The new law
Continue Reading New York becomes third state to ban PFAS chemicals in food packaging
Public health officials in Colorado are warning the public to be aware of the dangers of foodborne botulism poisoning amid an investigation of several cases in the state.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Continue Reading Alert in Colorado warns people to be aware of botulism risks; 5 sick
