Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk issued a joint statement Wednesday on a Canadian request to create a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to
On the same day the American Meat Institute (AMI) sent a letter demanding a meeting with Jerold R. Mande, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Deputy Under Secretary for
A new rapid test for E. coli O157:H7 has been developed by Salt Lake City-based Idaho Technology Inc. (ITI).
“Our objective is to help food processors effectively test
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) issued a public health alert yesterday regarding a local Salmonella outbreak linked to raw alfalfa sprouts.
The
Four years ago, frozen strawberries imported to Finland from Poland were found to be spreading norovirus across borders. More than 1,000 Finlanders became sick. A new norovirus outbreak may
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that it gave $17.5 million in grants to state and local regulatory agencies to bolster food and feed safety
This week’s Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) continues to be dominated by processing the recalls of products that used either peanut butter or
Two and half weeks before The New York Times put the beef industry’s safety flaws under a microscope, the meat industry had renewed its campaign for beef carcass irradiation
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) released a report on the ten riskiest foods regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that has garnered
The parasite in the water at Seneca Lake State Park in the summer of 2005 is finally working its way through the New York Court of Claims.
Judge Nicholas Midey
I know you already knew this, but it’s National Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week.
All sarcasm aside, the importance of safe food handling practices for healthcare workers is likely underrated.