Arianna Huffington announced that she had chosen 100 people in a variety of fields to honor as the Huffington Post’s 2010 Game Changers yesterday. Food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk,
An Ohio dairy farm went way over the limit for using the antibiotics Sulfamethoxazole in conjunction with Trimethoprim in treating an ill animal, probably for a urinary tract infection.
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Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies released the workshop summary from its Forum on Microbial Threats. The summary, entitled “Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health
The United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) has found unsatisfactory levels of bacteria–a sign of poor hygiene and a cross contamination threat—in restaurant cleaning cloths.
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When the FDA announced just before Labor Day that it found the genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon safe, news headlines and even Alaska Senator Mark Begich called it a “frankenfish.” A
Hard-E Foods Inc. does not have scheduled processes established by an acidified foods expert for its Pickled Eggs, Garlic Mustard Pickled Eggs, Beet Pickled Eggs, Sweet Pickled Eggs, and
This September marks the 15th annual observance of National Food Safety Month. Created by the food industry in 1995, the month is intended to renew focus on safety precautions within
A 19-year-old Michigan juice company with day care centers carved out as a market niche is failing to pasteurize its products, according to the U.S. Food and
In a real-life example of the mythical story of David vs. Goliath, organic soybean producers and The Cornucopia Instituteare claiming victory over Dean Foods, the maker of Silk soymilk
With JBS, SA, the largest beef company on the planet based in Brazil, and Sampco Inc., its export/import operation based in Chicago, one might think the biggest pros in
Scientists with the University of Texas School of Public Health have released a study on persistent organic pollutant (POP) levels in the U.S. food supply. The study, published in