I am finally sitting on a plane (an hour and a half late) heading home to Seattle from Atlanta nearly two weeks after leaving Seattle for Los Angeles and from
Canada has issued a warning about Beef Pet Food made by a British Columbia company because it may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canada’s public health warning, first issued Nov. 9, about certain “halal” meat products that are being distributed in the Vancouver metropolitan area has been expanded to include more retailers
Today is the first anniversary of the filing by USDA of a proposed rule with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish a mandatory inspection program
A former state veterinarian is the new director of the prestigious California Animal Health and Food Safety system at the University of California, Davis.
As of Nov. 4, Richard Breitmeyer
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The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has requested the recall of smoked salmon from a Fairbanks producer, saying it found that a shipment contaminated with Listeria.
The department has targeted
In a study whose results will likely have national significance, West Virginia will examine the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef in its state.
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U.S. beef, trying to get back into South Korea without restrictions, is getting both good news and bad news on the trade front.
While thousands of Koreans protested in
“Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That’s 263 million pounds a day. Eleven million pounds an hour. Three thousand pounds a second.”
Those
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom may be about to do something that would be unthinkable in the United States—making the meat industry pay for the
Washington has barred the sale of pre-mixed caffeinated alcohol beverages.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board voted unanimously Wednesday to impose a statewide ban on alcohol energy drinks similar