Another week, another food-safety crisis in China. Several news networks — Associated Press, Australian Press and Xinhua — report that 11 people have died and anywhere from 120 to 140 were
After failed attempts in past years, the California state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would ban bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, from baby bottles and sippy cups for
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, federal officials are actively sampling water from six East Coast rivers to check for E. coli, pesticides and other hazards that may have washed
A year ago, the national media, spurred on by information from activists organizations, were quick to paint the recall of more than a half billion shell eggs as the work
Seven more patients with illness onset dates from late July brought the total number of papaya-related Salmonella Agona victims to 106 before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Video or other electronic monitoring or recording devices are not only permitted but encouraged in federally inspected meat and poultry processing plants, and now new guidelines highlight the government’s
Del Monte Fresh Produce says it will file another lawsuit over the March recall of its imported cantaloupes, this one against the Oregon Public Health Division and its senior epidemiologist.
With the United Nations about to get close to the whole obesity epidemic debate, the research offered up by the medical journal The Lancet last week might well have been
The European Union is expected to lift its embargo on Egyptian seeds – put in place following the deadly E. coli outbreak linked to fenugreek seeds from that country – within the
Three companies — Taylor Farms of Tracy, CA; Triple B Corp. of Anchorage, AK; and So Ono Food Products of Honolulu, HI — have recalled chicken Caesar salads because the dressing includes
United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal likely did bring cholera into Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake last year, according to a new study published this week in mBio,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be hitting another hurdle in the effort to fund its new responsibilities under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
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