The Illinois Department of Public Health reported yesterday that the number of confirmed Salmonella Hvittingfos cases associated with Subway restaurants has climbed to 71.
Restaurant customers who have become ill
Historic nutrition bill increases funding, expands nutritional standards, and tackles school food safety
House lawmakers introduced a historic child nutrition bill yesterday that would target childhood obesity, hunger, and school
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The image (right, click to enlarge) identifies a strain of E. coli found in a recent cluster of illnesses that state officials say is linked to raw milk
With the plethora of beef recalls over recent years, companies and scientists are teaming up to develop pre-harvest vaccines for livestock used for food. Pre-harvest vaccines are administered
Seafood processing companies in Wisconsin, Colorado, and California were on the receiving end of warning letters made public this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The United States has never before had enforceable or legally defined designations for olive oil. With terms such as extra virgin, light, with lemon, unfiltered, cold-pressed, the variety is
The Bulgarian Cabinet has approved the establishment of a control body to coordinate food quality at all levels, modeled on the European Food Safety Authority, the government announced yesterday.
After
Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) defeated labor-backed Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter in a heated Democratic primary runoff Tuesday, bucking the notion that Lincoln
Editor’s Note: Over the summer and fall, Food Safety News will be visiting Major League Ballparks. Our major focus will be food safety, but we will also check to
The German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt or UBA) announced yesterday it recommends limiting the use of the increasingly controversial chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), in certain products to protect public health.
As discussed in Marion Nestle’s book, What to Eat, when preliminary evidence came out associating DHA–an omega-3 fatty acid–with visual and cognitive benefits in young infants,
Sharpen your produce inspection skills! The United
Fresh Research & Education Foundation, in partnership with the
USDA-AMS, is offering three produce inspection training courses in 2010.
This unique program