In his coming federal felony trial, Stewart Parnell does not want to hear anything about illnesses or deaths. Attorneys for Parnell, the former president of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation
Last week, the Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) coalition sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging the agency to police efforts by drug companies to sidestep
You may have heard about the FSIS announcement this week that the Wolverine Packing Company in Detroit, MI, was recalling 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products that may
Next to being known as one of the nation’s top egg producers, Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 79, had a reputation for being involved in all sorts of protracted legal disputes,
Washington state public health officials are warning consumers not to eat raw clover sprouts from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC of Moyie Springs, ID, since the product has been linked to
U.S. attorneys in Iowa have charged the company and the man once known as “The Chicken King” and his son with two federal felonies counts each, including bribery of
New research from Tufts University and a USDA economist published by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review casts doubt on the popular theory surrounding so-called food deserts in
The House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies each met Tuesday for markup of their respective agriculture appropriations bills. The House
(The following opinion piece by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, associate dean of the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, was published May 15, 2014,
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is praising state health officials and other collaborators for their work in identifying ground beef from the Wolverine Packing Company
Contact with frozen feeder rodents has been linked to 37 people from 18 states becoming infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, according to an announcement Tuesday from the
Brian Ronholm has been the head of the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) since Dec. 19, 2013 – that is six months today – and what a six months it