Pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems have been advised against eating ready-to-eat (RTE) cold-smoked or cured fish.
The advice comes from a risk assessment by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards
Continue Reading Smoked fish advice updated amid Listeria outbreak
Almost half of respondents to a survey in Northern Ireland have been served raw or undercooked meat at a barbecue.
The poll revealed 45 percent of barbecue-goers in summer were given items such as burgers
Continue Reading Irish survey highlights barbecue food safety risks
Assessments of the health impacts of the non-sugar sweetener aspartame have led to disagreements among various research and public health groups.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and
Continue Reading International agency says aspartame is possibly carcinogenic but FDA disagrees
Mary McGonigle-Martin, a board member of the national food safety group STOP Foodborne Illness whose son became critically ill after drinking raw milk contaminated with E. coli in 2006, says public health has lost the
Continue Reading Public health is losing out in annual state battles with raw milk
As expected, USDA has followed Singapore by approving for the United States, the growth by two companies of animal cells into chicken products that one day might be sold to consumers.
USDA’s Food Safety and
Continue Reading USDA’s regulatory approvals are in for two lab-grown chicken operations
A man in Missouri has died after eating raw oysters, according to local public health officials.
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health reported the death on June 12 when it was notified by
Continue Reading Man dies from bacterial infection after eating raw oysters
An outbreak of Salmonella infections traced to backyard poultry flocks has sickened 104 people, resulting in 27 hospitalizations, according to an update from the CDC.
Those sick range in age from 2 months to 83
Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak traced to backyard poultry sickens more than 100 so far this year
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
Continue Reading Social media experiment challenges those ‘use-by’ dates
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
Continue Reading Local officials in Montana issue public warning about contaminated raw milk