The New York Times over the weekend called on the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to release food safety rules that the agency has been reviewing for
The Government of Canada put up a new single approach to food inspections for public comments late last week. If enacted, it would apply to all food commodities whether made
California Department of Public Health (CDPH) director Dr. Ron Chapman warned consumers on Saturday to not eat shucked and in-shell raw oysters from Drakes Bay Oyster Company because they
In May, I wrote a column in this space suggesting that through its successful lobbying to “zero out” funding for the Microbiological Data Program in the fiscal year 2013 budget,
Burch Equipment LLC in North Carolina is expanding its recent recall of nearly 189,000 cantaloupes to now include all of this growing season’s cantaloupes and honeydew melons distributed
A North Carolina-based company is recalling one lot of its black licorice because the product contains high levels of lead. Lucky Country, Inc. of Lincolntown, NC issued a voluntary
Ohio this week became the first state to gain approval to sell meat from small, state-inspected slaughterhouses across state lines — a critical step toward rebuilding processing infrastructure for small-
Arkansas health officials now think it was something in the chicken salad made almost half the inmates ill at the historic Tucker prison. Chicken salad recipes are often highly personalized,
A Canadian vaccine designed to reduce E. coli O157:H7 shedding in cattle has become the first drug of its kind to be approved for use in the United Kingdom.
After seeing a spike in Campylobacter illnesses, New Zealand has largely been able to sustain lower rates of these infections. But this feat has not been easy for the southern
In the past three months, an unusually high number of people have contracted Shigella sonnei infections in Douglas County, Nebraska, prompting a safety warning by the local health department. Normally,