A charity in Australia has repeated a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms.
The Food Safety Information Council’s annual message comes as mushrooms are starting to appear around Australia with it being Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
Lydia Buchtmann, Food Safety Information Council CEO, said foraging for food is
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As the popularity of at-home freeze drying continues to grow, so do questions about its safety.
Once primarily a commercial food preservation technique, freeze drying has made its way into homes, with consumers hoping to create long-lasting, shelf-stable foods. However, many home users lack the knowledge needed to ensure the
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The Food and Drug Administration this week banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in foods, meeting requirements of the 1960 Delaney Clause of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
The action comes after years of public requests for the FDA to take action against harmful chemicals added to
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The Food and Drug Administration has begun a domestic sampling assignment to collect and test aged raw milk cheese for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1). The objectives of the assignment are:
Drinking raw milk — even from a certified dairy — puts you at risk for intestinal foodborne diseases, among them E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria. Not only that, diverting contaminated milk to raw cheese production is not necessarily safe.
That’s the warning from a team of public health scientists from
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What should have been happy vacation memories turned into a horrific nightmare of foodborne illness from salad after 55-year-old Julie Packard returned home from Hawaii.
Packard, now 58, and her family vacationed in paradise in December 2021. It was their second trip to the island state, and they thought they
Continue Reading Vacation in paradise capped off by severe case of rat lungworm disease
These sprouts are cool — literally. Unlike other sprouts that were grown in warm, moist conditions, Wild About Sprouts (https://wildaboutsprouts.com) are grown in cool temperatures using a patented process.
Why does this matter?
Turns out that sprout seeds themselves can be the starting point of a foodborne illness
A recipe for so-called fluffy popcorn that is circulating on TikTok is actually a recipe for disaster.
The fad comes from a TikTok user who suggests using raw cake mix to flavor popcorn. Raw cake mix contains raw flour, which has been the source of at least 168 confirmed cases
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Two recent surveys of consumers show record lows in confidence of the safety of the U.S. food supply.
In a Gallup poll, 28 percent of survey respondents do not have much confidence, and 14 percent have “none at all.”
In a survey by the International Food Information Council (IFIC), survey
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Science fiction down on the farm? What about this? Take some biopsies from live meat animals, put the cells, suspended in nutrients, in large bioreactors, and wait for them to grow into a larger mass that can be processed into products such as burgers and sausages.
When asked for his
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