As a garden teacher and volunteer at the Edible Schoolyard, the middle school garden and kitchen program in Berkeley, CA, I loved watching a class of 30 or so kids,
Fresh Express, the nation’s dominant bagged salad producer, needs to review its criteria for receipt of raw products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) .
In
Los Angeles’ fleet of over 9,000 food trucks, a niche culinary fad gone mainstream in cities across the U.S., will soon be subject to the same food safety
Two top food-focused administration officials visited a D.C. elementary school yesterday to kick off the Second Annual D.C. Farm to School Week, part of a wider initiative
Dubai will begin requiring all food establishments to have a certified Person in Charge for food safety and quality, a move that continues the municipality’s drive to improve food
“No child should have to learn on an empty stomach,” announced President Obama at his recent Proclamation of National School Lunch Week.
In 1962, by joint resolution, Congress designated the
Better use of information technology might help minimize the next big foodborne illness outbreak, says Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).
Writing in the foundation’s
UPDATE II: We now believe, based on Gulf oyster industry sources that have been reliable in the past, that the substance found in oysters at Vinnie’s Raw Bar last
For more than five years, the state of Oklahoma has been suing chicken companies mostly based in Arkansas for allegedly polluting the Illinois River with poultry litter.
Nothing has been
The US Food and Drug Administration is continuing to take a “very serious” look at the link between the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the growing prevalence of antibiotic-
Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety (CFS) recently went looking for formaldehyde in noodlefish, and found it.
CFS, a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department that serves
The University of California-Davis’ Center for Produce Safety has awarded $6.8 million to fund 41 research projects aimed at informing the production of safe fruits, vegetables, and other