On Tuesday in Tallahassee, after meeting with CDC boss Robert Redfield about the agency’s initiative that seeks to reduce new HIV transmission by 75 percent in five years, Florida
A study by German researchers has raised concerns on the microbiological quality of ready-to-eat salad mixes and fresh sprouts.
The three-year research project by the Max Rubner Institute also found
The company behind Ragú brand sauces is recalling an unreported amount of pasta sauces from stores nationwide because they may contain fragments of plastic.
Mizkan America Inc. did not include
The Sprouts Farmers Market grocery chain is recalling conventional and organic frozen spinach manufactured by National Frozen Foods of Oregon, because a random test came back positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The reaction was somewhat muted to the new “regulatory framework” for agricultural biotechnology products announced last week by the White House and USDA.
The big agriculture organizations and biotech industry
The FDA uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations on food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’
Swedish officials are investigating an outbreak of Yersinia with more than 20 people affected.
The Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) reported the source of infection is still unknown. Infection
A review of National Health Service food has been ordered by Conservative Health Secretary Matt Hancock after the number of deaths linked to a Listeria outbreak from pre-packed sandwiches and
The United Kingdom has reported 24 cases of Salmonella linked to travel on cruise ships.
Salmonella Enteritidis cases are from cruise ships visiting destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle
WinCo Foods LLC is recalling frozen red raspberries because of potential contamination with norovirus.
The Food and Drug Administration found norovirus in a sample of WinCo brand raspberries and informed
For the second time this year Hometown Food Co. is recalling some of its Pillsbury flour because of bacterial contamination. This time the pathogen is E. coli and the flour
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is learning that if you want something, you should ask for it. FSIS wants a beef plant to explore modernization through
