National Health Education Week will kick off October 19. This year, the Society for Public Health Education has chosen to focus on food safety with the theme, “Let’s Dish:
The deadly Salmonella outbreak caused by peanut processing plants in Georgia and Texas is still being blamed for costing growers money, but it may just be good old supply and
Like a railroad engineer looking down the tracks and seeing nothing but green lights coming at him, JBS S.A. is now all but certain to take over America’s
The University of Wisconsin’s Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in Madison takes over Nov. 9th as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s deputy undersecretary
America’s oldest tofu company, San Francisco-based Quong Hop, has agreed to pay a $90,000 fine and without admitting to any wrongdoing agreed to comply with a list
A national survey on the microbiological quality of ice cream, conducted by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in 2001 found that over half of the samples tested unsatisfactory
With cilantro, peppers, lettuce and undeclared milk and peanut protein, there is plenty new in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Enforcement Report for the week
Canada is taking the United States to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Dispute Settlement Body on Oct. 23rd over country of origin labeling.
Country of origin labeling (COOL)
Earlier this week, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced she will introduce the E.coli Eradication Act, a bill that would mandate greater E. coli testing in ground beef processing,
It has been over a year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has had a Senate-confirmed Under Secretary of Food Safety–a reality that has left many
Today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contains “Recommendations for Diagnosis of Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Infections by Clinical Laboratories.” The report, which was written by collaborators from