With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New
A few days before authorities in Shanghai announced they had shut down a dairy and arrested local businessmen for adulterating milk products with melamine, a toxic industrial chemical, official Chinese
On December 31, 2009, the Chinese government-run Xinhua news agency announced that melamine was found in milk produced by the Shanghai Panda company. Initial reports indicated that the Shanghai
LSG SkyChefs has fired its general manager and head chef at Denver International Airport and has torn out the pipes and drain that were contaminated with the stubborn Listeria bacteria.
A dozen or so feedlots around the Fort Morgan, CO beef plant owned by Cargill Meat Solutions have been enlisted in a field trial for a vaccine against E. coli
A New Jersey cheese manufacturer should be put out of business, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.
FDA has filed an action in federal court against Passaic,
Part three of a three part discussion with Harry Hamil, founder of North Carolina’s Black Mountain Farmers Market, on how he would change the Senate food safety bill to
After today, U.S. beef may have to fight on both the domestic and foreign fronts over the safety of its product.
The American Meat Institute (AMI) has been working
A dozen days have passed since the Christmas Eve beef recall by Oklahoma-based National Steak and Poultry and still basic information has not been disclosed.
Not only has the
Chinese authorities closed a dairy in Shanghai and arrested three of the company’s executives after melamine was discovered in its dairy products, according to a Shanghai newspaper.
According to
Beginning January 1, home-based food producers in New Mexico are required to obtain a permit from the New Mexico Environment Department.
The food permit, which cost $100 per year,
“The USDA has moved at glacial speeds on controlling Campylobacter in the chicken industry,” so says Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the