After Maple Leaf cold-cuts killed 22 people in Canada last year in a Listeria outbreak, the company is launching a revamped Website, which includes a new “food safety at
What’s wrong with this picture?
What’s more American than a hamburger? Apple pie? Baseball? Maybe. Yet hamburgers alone are an American icon at risk of becoming a symbol
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is getting help from an unlikely source—the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
AMS is the 5,
There is increasing evidence that farm animal stress can have a significant detrimental effect on food safety according to a recent study.
Though it is known that animal stress can
Why Should the Food Safety and Inspection Service Declare Enterohemorrhagic non-O157 E. coli to be an Adulterant?
It seems that any serious discussion of E. coli O157:H7 always
A second daylong public meeting for hearing comments on how to make sure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is turning out information that is “useful, understandable, and
Eat When Hungry; Stop When Full.
There is a new set of food safety instructions to consider, “Eat when hungry; stop when full.” It sounds self-explanatory, but healthy eating
‘No one is exempt from food safety,’ but USDA, FDA show sensitivity to small farmer concerns
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan addressed food safety concerns last week in the
Food retailers and wholesalers are being offered web seminars and free subscriptions through the end of 2009 for the Rapid Recall Exchange if they subscribe by the end of October.
Polly and Ken Costello of Bellevue, Nebraska, daughter and son-in-law of Ruby Trautz, who lost her life to severe E. coli complications after eating contaminated Dole Spinach, will
Canadians who had symptoms of listeriosis after eating contaminated deli meats from Maple Leaf Foods last year have until Nov. 2 to file for a share of a $25 million
Doug Powell, an associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University (KSU), has been a food safety media guru for years–since even before Al Gore “invented the internet”