On Tuesday the Kansas City Star published the final installment of “Beef’s Raw Edges,” its three-day investigative series examining the current state of the U.S. beef industry.
Freshway Foods is recalling 6,671 pounds of sliced apples that were packaged on November 12. The apples all used the same packing machine, which may have been contaminated with
The United States currently leads the world in food production; but in order for this to remain true, the government must invest more in agricultural research, says a committee of
STOP Foodborne Illness, a Chicago-based nonprofit public health organization, is looking for victims of foodborne illness whose treatments had to be extended because of antibiotic resistance. “Doctors and other
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Monday released details on their new “hold and test” policy, which will soon require meat producers to
An E. coli outbreak in the Northeastern United States linked to salad greens is now over , announced the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday. The agency reported
Raw milk produced by the Kimberton Farms Dairy and distributed by the four-store Kimberton Whole Foods is making people sick with “severe gastro enteric symptoms,” Pennsylvania’s Chester County
Celebrity chef Martha Stewart came down with a Salmonella infection in late November, reported the New York Post this week. Stewart was forced to cancel a number of post-Thanksgiving
The saga of the missing FDA food safety regulations continues with a new government filing in a lawsuit challenging FDA’s failure to promulgate regulations implementing three critical programs that
A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the end of the Salmonella outbreak tied to Trader Joe’s peanut butter
Enough beef to feed one million Americans for a year has been imported from Brazil without the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) mitigations that are supposed to be applied to countries
People in Portales, NM are beginning to fear the nation’s largest organic peanut butter plant might not have a future in their community. Their politicians are beating their drums