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I have been known as the “whistleblower” against Peanut Corp. of America, the company responsible for the peanut butter Salmonella outbreak of 2009, which eventually turned into the largest food
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Wednesday approved funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for fiscal year 2013 with no
The E. coli O145 outbreak that killed a 21-month-old girl in New Orleans on May 31 is connected to at least 11 illnesses across the southern United States,
A Canadian firm is voluntarily recalling two types of ground beef product because the beef may be contaminated with E. coli. Kabul Farms of Mississauga, Ontario is withdrawing its Ground
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has charted a course for fighting obesity that does not – at least at the outset – depend upon public opinion. That’s good for him because
After announcing that Hawaii-based Keoki’s LauLau was recalling 400 pounds of pork product last week for potential Listeria contamination, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Over the next three years, the Walt Disney Company will phase junk food advertising out of its TV and radio programming targeted at kids. Under the new plan – announced Tuesday
A 27-year-old post-graduate student at Fudan University in Shanghai was hailed as a “Food Safety Warrior” in the June 4 edition of the Beijing Review, China’s
Under a new policy that gave school districts the choice, only three states opted to buy ground beef containing the controversial Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), according to the U.
Two unrelated E. coli deaths at the end of May — a 6-year-old Massachusetts boy and a 21-month-old girl in Louisiana — still have public health officials searching