Caving under the weight of a political firestorm over its proposed rule to reduce Vibrio vulnificus poisoning from raw oysters, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday
The Make Our Food Safe Coalition, made up of leading public health, consumer, and food safety organizations, continues to call on lawmakers to push the pending food safety legislation though
According to a report released by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) this week, climate change may exacerbate a wide variety of global food safety issues, ranging
Debate over the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) proposed policy to reduce a deadly bacteria in raw oysters continues to grab headlines.
In mid-October Michael Taylor,
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has scheduled a markup of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, almost nine months after Senator Dick Durbin
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the publication of an updated FDA Food Code yesterday.
The updated code, which hadn’t been significantly revised since 2005, includes
Cattle hides are more likely to be contaminated with E. coli at the feedlot than at the slaughterhouse and transport and lairage do not increase the number or isolation rate
Twenty-two senior Chinese food safety delegates from industry, government and academia met in Minnesota last week as part of the Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership’s (GIFSL’s) two-week
In response to two deaths and nine recent outbreaks of Salmonella in the United Kingdom, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) is launching a full investigation, the Telegraph reported Saturday.
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In a move that is sure to please sushi lovers everywhere, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and U.S. Food Drug Administration (FDA) announced an interagency partnership this
Leading foodborne illness litigators, industry counsel, scientists, and public health officials met in Chicago this week for the American Conference Institute’s (ACI’s) 3rd National Forum on Foodborne Illness
USDA Leaders Promote Local Food in Georgia This Week–Is Local Food Safer?
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan visited the University of Georgia Monday to discuss the U.S.