Georgia will not let a future Peanut Corporation of America get away with knowingly releasing contaminated food to the market.
A key lawmaker wants to make it a felony for
According to a report released by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) this week, climate change may exacerbate a wide variety of global food safety issues, ranging
Putting U.S. beef back on the shelves in Asia caused riots last year in Seoul and now it is bringing a street protest to Taipei on Saturday.
Taiwan and
Debate over the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) proposed policy to reduce a deadly bacteria in raw oysters continues to grab headlines.
In mid-October Michael
Raw milk folk are certainly wedded to their cause. I was present at the California Legislature in January 2008 when one to two hundred people paraded to the podium to
Another state is tightening down on the use of “poultry litter”, that inviting mix of poop, sawdust, feathers and spilled feed that results from raising chickens and turkeys.
The State
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has scheduled a markup of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, almost nine months after Senator Dick Durbin
In just three years since the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak from bagged baby spinach, the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) is now policing over 110 companies that
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced S. 2758, the Growing Safe Food Act, yesterday to help educate and train farmers and food processors in food safety.
The proposed legislation, which
Canadians are being warned not to feed their children, the elderly, pregnant women, or those with weakened immune systems ANY raw or undercooked sprouts.
Health Canada and the Canadian Food
Two additional E. coli O157:H7 recalls were experienced the final week of October 2009, both emanating from consumer outbreaks. Recall # 057-2009 was announced on October 26, from South