The Allegheny County Health Department has confirmed that 12 employees and customers of The Porch restaurant in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland have been infected with E. coli O157:H7.
Tennessee health officials have given a raw-milk cow-share operation that has been linked to an E. coli O157 outbreak that has sickened 9 children — all of them under
A number of news organizations in Washington state and nationwide have already called the vote against I-522, the state’s ballot initiative for labeling food from genetically modified organisms
This article was updated to include an expanded list of recalled products issued Nov. 8, 2013. Garden Fresh Foods is expanding its voluntary recall of fresh cut vegetables, ready-to-
Edit (Nov. 8): This article has been amended to include a response from the creators of the Arctic Apple. The original headline read “McDonald’s, Gerber Reject GMO Apple.” Both
This report originally appeared Nov. 5 in Environmental Health News. Exposure to two banned pesticides may be associated with an increased risk of endometriosis, according to researchers from Washington state.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has made a preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), a major source of artificial trans fat in processed
Wycen Foods Inc., a San Leandro, CA, establishment, is recalling approximately 809 pounds of Chinese-style chicken sausages, a dried snack food, because they are misbranded and contain monosodium glutamate
Routine inspections of domestic and international food facilities by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were “sharply curtailed” during the 16-day government shutdown in October, according to a
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced this week that Orange Blossom Farm is recalling Hot Dog Relish in response to a food safety investigation being conducted by CFIA. The relish
When a federal criminal case involves allegations of fraud and conspiracy and gets officially designated as “complex” with four defendants and one dozen attorneys involved, it is not surprising that
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is devising an online permitting system so people can legally salvage big-game animals (moose, elk, deer or antelope) killed on