By mistakenly not disclosing wheat starch on the ingredient label, a California meat processor has been forced to recall 140,000 pounds of fully cooked assorted products.
Santa Ana-based
One need not look far to grasp the scope of this country’s food safety problems, and the personal devastation that can happen when somebody is infected by E. coli,
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
The White House opened its gates to the public last weekend for the annual Spring garden and grounds tour, a tradition begun by First Lady Pat Nixon in 1972.
Thousands
Although federal law requires schools across the country to have food safety inspections twice a year, nearly 9,000 schools during the 2007-2008 school year did not.
According to
Discussion on the link between antibiotic resistance in humans and the routine, subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production rolls on. For the past several weeks, congressional staff working
Last year, the federal government issued egg safety regulations designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage.
Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Within our little circle of writers, editors, and freelancers, we at Food Safety News are often having a conversation about not getting distracted. We want to focus like a laser
NSF International, a not-for-profit global leader in food safety solutions, presented six 2010 Food Safety Leadership awards at the Food Safety Summit in Washington, DC last week.
Among
Late last year, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, in the first ever live Facebook chat between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the public, assured small meat processors
In 2009, according to an Associated Press calculation that used a formula created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 87 million people become ill due to foodborne
Mobile Bay’s oyster areas are open to harvesting again after being closed for 24 days. Public oyster reefs, however, remain off limits as Alabama’s Marine Resources Division moves