Chinese authorities seized more than 26 tons of melamin-tainted milk powder from an ice cream maker in what has become an ongoing, years-long food safety scandal.
It’s
U.S. Marshals, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, this week seized seafood products because a Wisconsin company did not have a Hazard Analysis and
If you are trying to get a bill passed, having it “left pending in committee” after a big public hearing cannot be good thing.
That’s exactly where House Bill
A new federal rule will give preference in contract bidding for school meals to local farm products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week.
The final rule, published
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that it is investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections. A preliminary analysis indicates the outbreak may be the result
Attorneys general from more than a dozen states are calling on Pabst, maker of the new highly alcoholic flavored drink “Blast,” to take the dangerous punch out of its product.
Four government agencies, led by the Federal Trade Commission, have announced long-awaited guidelines for food and beverage advertising targeted at children.
Under the proposals released Thursday, the food industry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released updated guidelines to help the seafood industry reduce or eliminate food safety hazards.
This is the fourth edition of the “Fish
Spring has long been the time of year for annual spring cleaning projects around the home. When it comes to safe food handling, however, everything that comes in contact with
A report published last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found limited success in efforts to encourage voluntary food industry reductions of acrylamide in processed food products.
Twenty-six percent of Coca-Cola shareholders voted to require that the company disclose its plans on the future use and possible phase out of bisphenol-A (BPA) in beverage
Fourteen foodborne pathogens cost $14.1 billion and present a significant public health burden, according to a report released today by the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. The