The Hawaii State Department of Health announced yesterday that it has confirmed 10 cases of Salmonella Paratyphi B infection related to the consumption of previously frozen internationally imported raw ahi
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), recently released a report detailing dairy greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector, dairies account for 4
Produce safety and traceability were two central topics of discussion this week at the United Fresh Produce Association’s 2010 industry conference in Las Vegas.
The increased industry-wide focus
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a Food Safety Assessment at Fort Worth’s Beltex Corporation and discovered possible E. coli
KCTS 9, the public television station in the Seattle area, aired a short documentary last Friday on the history of food safety since the 1993 Jack in the Box E.
A Washington state woman who made one false report too many about a piece of glass in a bottle of water is getting both jail time and home detention, according
On Monday the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) launched it’s latest campaign to collect information about farmers markets for the 2010 National Farmers Market
More than 80 public health, environmental, agriculture, and organic food organizations are fighting to protect genetically modified (GM), or genetically engineered (GE) food labels.
The groups sent a letter Tuesday
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the President’s choice to be the next Under Secretary of Food Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Monday will begin her fourth month of waiting to
I’ve recently been involved in a discussion with the BC Food Systems Network about the relationship between bears and food security. In terms of food security, this issue is
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement Tuesday, saying “a story in today’s Washington Post leaves a mistaken impression that the FDA has begun the
A group of retired military officers yesterday cited school lunches as a threat to America’s national security.
Mission: Readiness, as the group is called, appeared yesterday on Capitol Hill