If you haven’t heard, a Seattle attorney is petitioning the USDA to make it illegal to sell meat and poultry that is contaminated with Salmonella.
Yep, as of right now — and who knows
Continue Reading Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition
Consumer Reports Monday announced the appointment of former USDA deputy undersecretary Brian Ronholm as director of food policy for the 80-year old non-profit organization.
“Mr. Ronholm will lead Consumer Reports’ advocacy efforts to advance a
Continue Reading Consumer Reports taps former USDA food safety official to direct food policy
Livestock operations with lettuce fields as neighbors may soon be getting visits, welcome or not, from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, plans to introduce the Expanded Food Safety
Continue Reading Gillibrand bill empowers FDA to chase down sources of food borne illnesses to wherever they go
Major retailers including Whole Foods Market and Costco were among those where Consumer Reports found leafy greens contaminated with the potentially deadly bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
The pre-eminent consumer watchdog group gathered 284 samples of fresh
Continue Reading Spot check of almost 300 leafy greens samples shows serious contamination
Consumer Reports has identified 11 brands of bottled water, out of more than 130 that either self-reported or were tested by the consumer organization, that contain detectable amounts of arsenic.
” Of those, six had
Continue Reading Consumer Reports: Some bottled water brands have unsafe arsenic levels
The public doesn’t need to know which turkey plants have been found to be contaminated with a deadly strain of Salmonella that has infected people in 35 states, federal officials said yesterday in a strongly
Continue Reading USDA won’t name turkey plants, despite 164 illnesses and 1 death
Note on the author: Carmen Rottenberg, administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service posted this alert today.
As the head of a public health agency that ensures the safety of meat and
Continue Reading Setting the record straight: USDA says your meat and poultry are safe to eat
Laboratory analysis of 50 big-name baby foods showed the presence of at least one heavy metal in all of them, with two-thirds having “worrisome” levels, according to information from Consumer Reports. Researchers also said organic
Continue Reading Lead levels in baby food ‘worrisome’ but industry can fix the problem
Consumer Reports, published by the 7 million-member nonprofit Consumers Union, last week reported on survey results showing the public expects laboratory-produced meat from cultured animal cells to be clearly labeled. The results show the public
Continue Reading Public overwhelmingly favors term ‘lab-grown’ over ‘clean’ meat
Food safety experts at Consumer Reports are advising people in the U.S. and Canada to stop eating romaine lettuce.
During the past seven weeks, 58 people in the U.S. and Canada have become ill from
Continue Reading Consumer Reports warns against eating any romaine lettuce
