Gulf seafood safety is getting a big assist from the army of federal wildlife, fisheries and national park agents who are on scene to protect thousands of species from the
A controversial amendment proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban the use of bisphenol-A, otherwise known as BPA, in food and drink containers continues to threaten the
Amish Wedding Foods Inc. of Millersburg, Ohio, is recalling all lots of 9, 16, and 18 ounce pumpkin butter, as well as all lots of 16 and 18 ounce sweet
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday announced the schedule and panelists for the second joint public workshop on competition and regulatory issues
First Lady Michelle Obama, Big Food and Beverage Manufacturers Announce Agreement to Trim 1.5 Trillion Calories Annually by 2015
Sixteen of the top U.S. food and beverage manufacturers
A new study suggests that exposure to high levels of organophosphate pesticides, which are commonly used on fruits and vegetables, can lead to a higher rate of attention-deficit hyperactivity
BP’s limited success at squirting some oil to a ship on the surface did not prevent the expansion of the area of the Gulf closed to both commercial and
A California raw milk dairy farmer has managed to fend off the federal government’s legal attempt to put him and his dairy under tighter scrutiny through strategies such as
Cooked beef products from one source in Brazil have been stopped at the border because they contain too much of a broad-spectrum antiparasitic used as a de-worming agent
California-based Montclair Meat Company Inc. issued a recall May 15 for approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm and Foreign Agriculture Service’s Deputy Under Secretary, Darci Vetter and Former Senator George McGovern are traveling in Kenya May 10-
Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning story published by the New York Times after she became severely ill with an E. coli infection from a contaminated hamburger,