When it was built just before the Civil War, the Nottoway Plantation House had about 80 acres of front yard between it and the Mississippi River. Today a dike that
In a news release dated May 3 but posted Friday on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recall alert web site, Flowers Foods announced a recall of baked goods
The Government Accountability Office urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its oversight of the safety of food purchased for the federal school meal program in a report
Is food safe if left out overnight? Which is safer — a wooden cutting board or a plastic one? Should chicken be washed before it is cooked?
Those are some of
When it comes to choosing what to eat, taste still takes the cake as the deciding factor for Americans; however price is edging up in importance, and health is still
With a reminder that it was a key supporter of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce made public a letter it sent Thursday to Dr.
A paragraph in this week’s Government Accountability Office report on USDA’s school meal safety policies confirms that the Food Safety and Inspection Service has developed “standardized tests” to
Environmental swabs collected last Oct. 19 inside a Grandview, WA cheese processing facility were positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). So were
Five days after a Florida packing company recalled grape tomatoes due to Salmonella risk, another company announced that tomatoes it distributed were caught up in that recall and two major
An outbreak of E. coli O111 in central Japan has killed two children and two adults and sickened at least 56 other people, according to news reports this week.
The
A dog in Missouri became sick after chewing on pet treats made from pig ears, which prompted the recall of a product that may be contaminated with Salmonella.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced two new regulations Wednesday, the first rules issued since the Food Safety Modernization Act gave it some extra muscle.
Both rules take