The oppotunity to cut from the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program could put the Farm Bill on the agenda of the lame duck Congress, some agricultural interests say.
At least eight people have fallen ill with Vibrio parahaemolyticus harvested from Massachusetts waters this year, the state’s health department has reported to the Cape Cod Times. Massachusetts oysters
As a boy growing up in the Midwest with rivers and lakes and the occasional hill, I always thought I was in the best place. Then came the Elvis Presley
Two people stricken with Listeria monocytogenes have caused Spence & Co Ltd to recall New York-Style Nova Lox that were distributed in several parties in numerous states. The recalled
More than a month has passed since the first of the 106 victims in North Carolina’s Cleveland County Fair E. coli outbreak began showing symptoms of infection. This week
Tonsils, a specific risk material (SRM) for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), must be completed separated beef tongue products.
But at Wisconsin’s Black Earth Meat Market Inc., the tonsils might
To the long history of determining which food additives are “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) by the federal government, we can now add a privately developed database that is open
Peter Townsley, who sold non-compliant Biolizer XN fertilizer in California’s Salinas Valley from 2000 to 2006, begins a 364 day federal prison sentence today. U.S. Judge Charles
A former poultry inspector is calling on the government not to shift the responsibility of poultry inspection from federal inspectors to companies, a move being considered by the U.S.
Nestlé USA has issued a voluntary recall of chocolate powder that may be contaminated with Salmonella. The Glendale, California-based arm of international Nestlé is recalling a limited quantity of
At least 41 people in 20 states have fallen ill in an outbreak of Salmonella Bredeney linked to Trader Joe’s Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter made by Sunland, Inc.
Unpasteurized, unlabeled apple cider is thought to be the source of a series of E. coli infections that have recently cropped up in Antrim County, Michigan. The Health Department of