Michigan State University recently launched a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program to address an all too common and often ignored food policy issue: food fraud.
According to the university, “the Anti-Counterfeiting
Foodborne illness is a serious health risk for pregnant women and their unborn babies. During pregnancy, a woman’s immune system is weakened and it is harder for her body
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could improve transparency and recordkeeping on key decisions on irradiation petitions, according to a new report conducted by the Government Accountability Office
Another company that gets its pepper from Mincing Overseas Spice Company recalled several of its own products over the weekend for possible Salmonella contamination.
Elgin, IL-based John B. Sanfilippo
Fines of $3,000 for each of two counts of violating the Canadian Meat Inspection Act were imposed last year on an Ontario company after guilty pleas were entered.
The
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a low health risk, second-class recall over the weekend.
It involves about 10,368 pounds
The State Food and Drug Administration, China’s food safety watchdog, has ordered a nationwide inspection of all cooking oil as reports released by The China Dailyindicated that almost one-
Hamburgers used to be fun. Remember that? Barbecues, picnics, casual get-togethers: fun.
With the most recent recall of more than five million pounds of ground beef by Huntington Meat
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) oversight of organic food has been lax since the agency’s organic program was launched in 2002, according to a recent
This week, more than 600 public health professionals, health care providers, industry representatives, and food safety experts will take part in the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta. The
Kraft Foods announced last week that the company plans to eliminate 10 million pounds of salt from over 1,000 products in the next two years. The company will reduce
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is becoming the newest food safety champion in the Senate. Gillibrand, the first New Yorker to serve on the Agriculture Committee in almost four decades,