Congress is taking a closer look at the catastrophic 26-state Listeria outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupes. The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter Friday to Jensen Farms, the
Murray Biscuit Company is recalling 904 cases of 5.5-ounce packages of Murray Sugar Free Chocolate Chip cookies shipped to retail customers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee because the
By now, most everyone has heard about the so-called “supercommittee,” an idea cooked up by Washington to help resolve the summer-long standoff over raising the debt ceiling. Twelve lawmakers — six
From both sides of the aisle, Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are again taking aim at the genetically engineered salmon, which now may be closer than ever
The Senate is considering its Fiscal Year 2012 agriculture appropriations bill — which includes spending levels for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration — this week,
U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Margaret Hamburg emphasized the stark budget challenge facing the agency, which is charged with overseeing 80 percent of the food supply, in a speech
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a longtime hawk on food safety issues, once again blasted Republicans for seeking cuts to federal food safety programs, this time singling out Speaker of the
Conservative presidential candidate Michele Bachmann criticized federal meat safety requirements during a visit to a meat locker in Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday.
Along her usual talking points, Bachmann, a Congresswoman
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Under Secretary for Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen touted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to declare the six most common non-O157 serotypes of
The pathogen that changed it all – looking back to the monumental USDA decision to declare O157:H7 an adulterant in the wake of the 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak.
Six dangerous strains of E. coli — dubbed “the Big Six” — will soon be banned from the beef supply, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Monday.
“This is one of
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill late last week aimed at reforming food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The 67-page bill, introduced Thursday in the U.