Food Safety Scandals Continue Despite Government Crackdown Efforts
China continues to earn scary food safety headlines. This week, police in northwest China are blaming 11 deaths and 120 illnesses on
The first thing the inspector from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported seeing in the food storage warehouse was the trapped dead rodent behind the pallet of
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing recommendations for residents in states that might be affected by Hurricane Irene to minimize the
Anyone who thought Congress was out of it once it adopted the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act more than a year ago probably does not understand the money and complexity
In an unusual move, Del Monte Fresh Produce has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration saying “erroneous speculation, unsupported by scientific evidence” led to a March
Four years after an infamous University of Arizona study reported that our desks carry 400 times more dangerous bacteria than the average public toilet seat, guess where most of us
A dairy operation in Tipton, CA was using too much of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory animal drug known as flunixin and could not pass a residue test.
Flunixin is
Fresh eggs, garden compost and natural pest control — those are just some of the benefits backyard chickens provide.
But with at least 92 individuals — many of them children — now sickened
If you use Wesson brand cooking oils, you may be able to join a class action against food giant ConAgra for deceptively marketing the products as natural.
These days it’
Two cattle operations located west of the tiny hamlet of Doon, IA
are getting the sort of scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration that it normally reserves
Four seafood processing facilities — making everything from herring and mackerel to raw trout, whitefish and walleye to seafood stuffings and salads — received warnings letters from the U.S. Food and
A delegation from the European Union has been sent to Egypt to test seeds there for E. coli O104:H4, the strain of bacteria that caused the deadly outbreak that