A Ridgewood, NY warehouse used to both manufacture and distribute kosher food products was the target of a raid by U.S. Marshals on April 12. The Marshals raided the
Hawaii has temporarily stopped preventing food handlers and others who have not been cleared for tuberculosis from working because of a nationwide shortage of testing solutions. State health officials from
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering extending the May 16 comment deadline on the produce safety rule in response to multiple requests by stakeholders, an agency official
Naturally producing molds and fungi, can produce chemicals called mycotoxins, which are ubiquitous in the natural world. Patulin is one type of mycotoxin among several, and it found in apples
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will
Deep into the current legislative season, it’s still not possible to say whether any state is going to adopt a full-blown “ag-gag” bill. At the moment, “ag-
When people think of where germs lurk in the kitchen, the blender and can opener are not likely to be the first two places that come to mind. But these
No one wants customers to get sick.
That was the message that University of Vermont Extension food safety specialist Londa Nwadike used to start off her recent webinar presentation about
I would prefer to be contacted simply for “
reporting without bias,” but Katie Cooper, the national radio producer actually said she was contacting me because I was about the only
The Louisiana firm that recalled 20,166 pounds of roast beef products earlier this week for potential Listeria contamination has greatly expanded the initial recall, which now includes 468,000
The CDC is reporting a total of 27 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O121 (STEC O121) from 15 states. Of those ill, 81
Health officials have detected two cases of the same strain of E. coli O157:H7 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and are conducting an investigation to determine the source of the