When the domestic catfish industry talks about its competition from the “Mekong Delta” being unfair and maybe illegal, it sometimes sounds a little paranoid, Now, however, U.S. catfish producers
Linda Rivera, a Reno, Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past fifteen months, has been promised the Senate
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a longtime advocate for more stringent food safety laws, introduced a bill yesterday with the “goal of completely eradicating the dangerous Shiga toxin-producing E.
Standing alongside key lawmakers, child nutrition advocates, and elementary students dressed as grapes, apples, carrots, and bananas, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) yesterday urged the Senate to
Fish processing and general sanitation problems plague BCS African Wholesale Food Supply in Brooklyn Park, MN, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a July 20 warning letter.
A fungus called Basil downy mildew is rapidly spreading throughout basil crops all over the country. Though the fungus is not known to negatively effect human health, it does turn
In the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against “prior restraint” of the media by government except in very extraordinary circumstances.
The threshold to impose prior
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he hopes to pass pending food safety legislation and the child nutrition reauthorization, two major food bills, before August recess.
Majority
FDA Says New System Helped Identify Over 100 Food Safety Problems in First 7 Months
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report yesterday on the agency’s
Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.18 billion pounds in June 2010, up slightly from the 4.16 billion pounds produced in June 2009.
Meatingplace reported
Another pet food recall is in the works because of possible Salmonella contamination.
This time it is the Procter & Gamble Company that is recalling cat food. The company’s