The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are reevaluating the health risks of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods. The agencies
Feed Additive Remains Sticking Point in Beef Dispute; Key Ag Senators Press Taiwan, Declaring U.S. Beef Safe
The two top Senators on the Agriculture Committee, Ranking Member Pat Roberts
Foreign counties under trade policies can ship and sell meat and poultry anywhere in the United States. But if those same products are offered from domestic sources with anything less
The 13th annual Food Safety Summit kicks off in Washington, D.C. today. The event, which runs through Thursday, April 21, 2011 will feature more than 1,400 experts and
A New York company is recalling herring in vegetable oil imported from Russia because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum spores, which can cause Botulism.
A recall of seafood mousses and dips announced in Canada last week has been expanded to the United States.
Charcuterie La Tour Eiffel of Montreal is recalling all Summersweet seafood
The Senate unanimously adopted a bill late last week to stiffen the criminal penalties for companies that knowingly violate food safety laws.
The bill, authored by Judiciary Commmittee Chairman Patrick
The Lone Star State will conduct a hearing Wednesday in Austin on a bill to ease regulations for the sale of unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products.
House Bill 75,
A Seattle microbiologist reports that he found the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus on nearly half, and Campylobacter on more than half, of 100 raw chicken samples collected from area grocery stores.
Lancaster, PA isn’t close to any salt water, but the Chesapeake Crab Connection has worked up a solid retail restaurant business that apparently qualifies as a seafood processing facility.
For two years USDA’s communications director Christine Mather and press secretary Caleb R. Weaver kept the treatment of Tom Vilsack more like that reserved for a crown prince than
If you’ve been shopping for ham recently, you may have found yourself bewildered by the many choices available: fresh, cured, cooked, spiral-cut, smoked, bone in, boneless, country. It’