Following an outbreak of E. coli O111 in April and May that took the life of two children and two adults, and sickened at least 56, Japan’s Ministry of
U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Margaret Hamburg emphasized the stark budget challenge facing the agency, which is charged with overseeing 80 percent of the food supply, in a speech
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Tuesday dropped its consumer advisory against eating raw sprouts and growing sprouts from seed at home, and recommended consumers refer to the various national
The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado’s Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public
Ever since Marie Antoinette was falsely associated with the quote “let them eat cake” at a time when bread was more on people’ s minds, governments have been pushing food
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking steps to increase the availability of its enforcement data to the public.
Following a May mandate from President Obama that FDA increase
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations produced the Food Safety Modernization Act after a series of public hearings on tragic foodborne illness outbreaks involving everything from peanut butter to eggs.
Another major egg producer is having trouble complying with the federal government’s new egg rule.
Forsman Farms, producer of Mae’s Eggs, in Cokato, MN, received an Aug. 30
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding a public meeting to provide information and receive comments on agenda items, as well as
A new 25-page background paper from the environmental group Food & Water Watch is long on information supporting its views on the science and politics surrounding genetically engineered food.