Three Pennsylvania dairy farms are abusing penicillin, neomycin, and flunixin–all drugs used to treat animals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In warning letters to
Significant violations of federal food regulations were found during an inspection of a food commodity warehouse owned by the Quinault Indian Nation located on Washington state’s Pacific Coast.
The
Eleven senators are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt the pending approval of genetically modified salmon produced by AquaBounty Technologies, which would be the first GM
In a move industry insiders say could mark the beginning of a national trend, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed new legislation requiring nearly all of the more than one million food
When Anne Schwartz, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm, a 20-acre organic farm in Western Washington, talks about the cut salad greens she sells at local farmers markets, she
Hardly a week goes by without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handing out an official warning to an American dairy farmer about the overdose of antibiotics in
Information brought to light during hearings before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has led to punitive damages being added to lawsuits against Quality Egg/Wright County
Five years after suffering brain damage from an intravenous food supplement prepared with too much magnesium, an Irish child died of complications due to pneumonia.
Elaine Barrett, from Galway, was
Senator Coburn is wrong. The Senate needs to pass meaningful food safety legislation immediately, not keep it on the backburner through the lame duck session so that it can start
POM Wonderful has upset another government agency by being way too enthusiastic about its products.
After 19 months of investigation, the Federal Trade Commission Monday charged POM Wonderful LLC in
The Chinese government is launching a nationwide registry aimed at keeping melamine out of the food supply and in the industrial sector, where the chemical is typically used for making
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 76 million incidents of foodborne illness occur in the United States each year. Many of these cases are