Another food company is pledging to remove artificial dyes from its products, with General Mills being the latest to respond to a request from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
In a company statement, the cereal giant said it would remove Food and Drug Administration approved artificial dyes from
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting plenty of criticism for what could happen as his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda upends some long-established public health policies.
But for some nationally prominent raw advocates, RFK Jr. is not moving fast enough. Mark McAfee, chief executive
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President Trump has again nominated Mindy Brashears to be USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety.
Brashears served as Undersecretary for Food Safety for the last 303 days of Trump’s first term, which turned out to be the most significant period for any Under Secretary for Food Safety in history, as
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The 41.7 million people who received monthly SNAP benefits in 2024 have long known they cannot use what were once called food stamps to purchase alcohol, tobacco, personal care products, or even hot and prepared foods.
In 2025, one state after another is adding soda pop to that “verboten” list
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The Department of Health and Human Services is requesting $72 million for food safety efforts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in fiscal year 2026.
The request is a relatively small portion of the $94.7 billion for HHS requested in President Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget. The total
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JBS has created a new parent company registered in the Netherlands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This means the Brazilian brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, who along with their company were involved in a bribery scheme, will likely have only to wait until June 12 to
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A slow moving pandemic.
That’s how how some human and animal health experts are referring to the growing threat of “superbugs” — a popularized term for bacteria that is antimicrobial resistant (AMR) — also commonly known as antibiotic resistant.
They don’t go by that name for nothing, and they can
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The United Kingdom has secured a trade deal with the European Union that will impact the food sector.
The UK government said a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement will make it easier for food and drink to be imported and exported by reducing the red tape for businesses that
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Dr. Denise Eblen, who holds a doctorate in food safety microbiology from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, is the top executive at the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, where she is known as “The Administrator.”
Outgoing Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack elevated her to the position on Dec.
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In remarks prepared for May 15th delivery at the Food Safety Summit in Rosemont, IL, Steven Mandernach of the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) said food safety is increasingly becoming a responsibility of the states.
The AFDO Executive called state and local governments “the primary boots on the
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