The Florida Senate passed a bill to ensure the safety of tomato crops Tuesday, two years after a Salmonella scare connected to Florida tomatoes.
Craig Meyer, deputy commissioner at the
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced a bill yesterday to overhaul the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) protocol for tracing contaminated meat back to the source to protect public
As part of our ongoing outreach to the public and food safety experts, as well as public health and industry leaders, Food Safety News is sponsoring a booth at the
The first changes in Canada’s policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat meats since 2004 were released to the public for comment Tuesday.
The goal of the new
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke to an audience of over 700 food safety education experts yesterday, emphasizing the Administration’s commitment to overhauling the food safety system
On Wednesday, the Center for Science in the Public Interest(CSPI) called on the states to improve outbreak reporting. “Better reporting of foodborne illness outbreaks could speed recalls and save
Last week, in an address to the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, First Lady Michelle Obama asked the nation’s largest food makers to reduce the amount of salt, sugar, and
Is our food really safe? The plethora of contamination events over the past few years certainly begs the question. The first major contamination event occurred in 1998 when Sara Lee
With the heated–and at times downright uncivil–political debate over health care reform in Washington, discussion over some of the finer details buried in the 2,500-page health
Unlike most states considering changes to their laws governing raw milk, Wisconsin’s $26 billion dairy industry has some real “skin in the game.”
A Wisconsin Senate committee has advanced
FoodHub is a brand new searchable online database of food producers and food buyers of all scales in Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. The site was launched in
Africa is getting chairs at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) table where food safety and animal and plant health issues are decided.
WTO is giving observer status to