The House is expected to approve major food safety legislation today. Though many on Capitol Hill pronounced the bill dead last week, the measure bounced back to life over the
The old-fashioned trick of hiding broccoli in the casserole to get kids to eat it has been given a high-tech update. The new tactic? Slipping healthy behavior lessons
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and local health departments to investigate the Salmonella outbreak that has
Plain, butter, and garlic crackers from Miami’s YeYa Products Corporation were adulterated because of conditions inside its food processing plant, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said
The 8th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety will be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island next June.
Both the Government of Canada and the Province of Prince Edward Island
Sprouts . . . nutritionally dense, next to irresistable on sub sandwiches, and an exceptional medium for the proliferation of dangerous bacteria.
Sprouts have been called one of the 10 riskiest foods. They
Food-safety engineers from Texas AgriLife Research at Texas A&M University report they’ve devised a method to reduce the amount of irradiation needed to kill pathogens like
The food safety bill–S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act–which some had given up for dead, was revived late Sunday attached to a shell bill and passed unanimously
I’ve always been a numbers guy. I am not talking about mathematics, but just plain numbers.
I do still wake up at night occasionally thinking I have a college
It is Saturday morning and I am watching and listening to the ongoing debate on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, which seems like it might pass. The
Illinois news organizations reported late Friday that health officials are investigating a Salmonella outbreak that may have sickened as many as 50 people in nine counties, most of them since
Winn Meats Co of Dallas, TX, is recalling approximately 25,600 pounds of ground beef products that were improperly labeled and potentially adulterated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s