I am often asked what foods I avoid because they may carry a risk of contamination with pathogenic organisms. I have a very short list of foods to avoid on
It’s no doubt that the first year on campus for college freshman is always a challenging time. For an increasing number of teens, living with food allergies heightens their
Since 2008, natural gas drilling crews have been flocking to Marcellus Shale, a large rock bed that lies about 6,000 feet beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
Beltway insiders are hearing more calls to pass the FDA food safety reform bill pending in the Senate. This week, The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, featured several Op-Eds
More than 90 percent of the catfish imported to the United States originates in Vietnam, a country that has become the largest competitor to U.S. Delta region catfish farmers.
If you get your Bluefish, Spanish mackerel, Tuna, Shad, King Mackerel, Amberjack, Dolphin (Mahi Mahi), or Wahoo from the Austin Fish Co. in Nags Head, NC or if you get
A plea deal in the federal criminal case over last year’s use of a dangerous pesticide to poison the patrons of a Mexican restaurant in Lenexa, KS means the
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to team up in order to accelerate the process from scientific
breakthrough to
Top meat industry groups held briefings on Capitol Hill Tuesday defending the use of antibiotics as a critical tool for animal health.
The briefings come two weeks after CBS Evening
Much higher than allowable levels of the antibiotic sulfadimethoxine have been found in a culled dairy cow sold for slaughter by P&D Dairy in Chino, CA.
The U.
For decades, the meat industry has insisted that pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 are inherent to raw meat, that there is no way for the manufacturing process to eliminate
Listeria is contaminating the Sun Hang Bean Sprout Inc. processing facility at 1330 Erskine Street in Detroit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disclosed Tuesday. Insanitary conditions at