The comment period for weighing in on a petition to ban the controversial chemical methyl iodide — an EPA-approved crop fumigant developed for strawberry production — is winding down this week.
A Minnesota dairy farm received an April 19 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after state agriculture officials conducted an investigation into animal drug misuse.
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When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected California’s Tomaso’s Specialty Foods last December, the investigators left with a fistful of labels from the Blue Lake
A year ago, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials sent a warning letter to Pennsylvania dairy farmer Daniel L. Alllgyer, saying they suspected he was illegally selling unpasteurized milk
California, a state that has long been at the forefront of the fresh food movement, is planting the seed of its “California cuisine” in the next generation.
This month marked
In revising a plan that had been criticized by consumer groups and others, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed a program to establish a voluntary, national marketing
Just days after a string of headline-grabbing food safety scandals, China’s food safety authority is expanding the list of forbidden or abusable additives and chemicals. Now 151 materials,
Animal agriculture in the Texas Panhandle may be tested soon on whether it can punish its own when severe abuse is involved.
Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera is now investigating
Consumers in the United Kingdom have spoken, revealing their views on nanotechnology in foods. The verdict? Healthy skepticism. Or rather, a skepticism of nanoparticles that do anything besides improve health.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Monday issued a 19-page draft of guidelines to help small and very small meat and poultry manufacturers reduce bacterial contamination in
In 1943, 20 million households raised Victory Gardens, and all those vegetables weren’t eaten fresh. Steel was directed to pressure-cooker production instead of munitions, and a massive effort
Warning letters on March 25, March 28, and April 6 put dairy farms in California, Idaho and Wisconsin on notice about misuse of animal antibiotics.
In each case, the U.