The size and severity of Europe’s E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was coming into worldwide focus as May passed into June, and it was time for the American government
Big retailers like Wal-Mart are siding with Asian seafood companies against their American counterparts over the definition of catfish.
The dustup over the definition went public as USDA ended
A South Carolina company is recalling approximately 18,416 pounds of boneless, fully cooked diced ham products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it has completed two tasks required by the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) — an anti-smuggling strategy and draft
A California farm that the federal government claims has “a long history of illegal drug residues (antibiotics)” in its veal calf meat has been shut down.
The U.S. Food
The O104:H4 serotype has an unusual clinical pattern for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) pathogens, including bloody diarrhea in adults followed by a high conversion rate to adult
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration works to meet deadlines and implement an ambitious new food safety law, the agency’s budget for the next fiscal year remains
More than 80 members of the health community came together Tuesday to demand that the Obama Administration improve the new set of rules requiring calorie labeling on menus and vending
The European Union banned the import of certain Egyptian seeds and beans Tuesday following an official report that a single batch of well-travelled Egyptian fenugreek seeds probably caused two
Here on Earth, food suppliers face enough challenges when it comes to keeping their products safe all the way from the farm to the dining room.
But for a small
A Texas dairy cow with high levels of Flunixin in its liver and a bob veal calf in California with gentamicin in its kidney tissues are the latest examples of
Seafood processing plants operated by La Fiesta Food Products in San Jose, CA and Wild Foods Inc. in Milwaukee, WI were both subjects of June 17 warning letters from the