The pending Senate food safety bill inched forward yesterday as key lawmakers released a bipartisan, compromise agreement, a step which should make it easier to bring the bill to the
More than a month before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, Johnson Sea Products Inc. on the Gulf Coast in Coden, AL was having a bad day or two processing
Despite an inspector finding “a small number of mice droppings” on the floor, a cafe in an Upper West Side New York City Barnes & Noble bookstore was awarded an
Continuing the PR push for struggling Gulf Coast seafood, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said yesterday the President was looking forward to eating seafood during his upcoming vacation
I received a couple of requests to define “public health” last week from readers [of Food Politics] Anthro and MA. As MA puts it,
“Maybe…we need a definition of
Opening of some federal waters off the politically touchy coast of the Florida panhandle to fin fishing earlier this week underscores just how much control the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Since the widespread pet food recalls of 2007 that resulted in the deaths of over 8,500 American cats and dogs, it appears that pet food recalls are occurring with
Western Washington dairy farmers Vic and Judy Jensen were just days away from becoming raw milk producers. Their herd had been inspected, and the state had licensed the dairy to
Pecan pieces, recalled last February by the American Pecan Company of Yancey, TX, were not only contaminated with Salmonella oranienburg, but were also misbranded.
The one-pound bags of Pecan
An ice cream manufacturing facility located in Washington state was found last spring with pests, poor screening, bad plumbing, cracked walls, and equipment and utensils that were not properly stored.
According to a new collaborative study released this week by a group of international scientists, the production of rice will be hindered as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas from
Fresh Express is recalled 2,825 cases of Veggie Lovers Salad yesterday after a random sample of the product was found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes in a test