A pizza vendor operating at a Seattle farmers market was shut down this weekend after a health department inspection revealed multiple sanitation violations at the facility. The Veraci Pizza, Inc.
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Citing worker safety and food safety concerns, a mix of health, labor and consumer groups is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withdraw a proposal to scale back
Food service establishments in Ottawa, Ontario that repeatedly fail health inspections will be required to enroll employees in mandatory food safety training if a proposal set to be discussed next
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s annual report to Congress, released this week, offers an overview of what the agency has been up to over the past year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding consumers that the Burch Farms cantaloupe recall was greatly expanded over the weekend. As of last week, 189,000 cantaloupes had
The Government of Canada put up a new single approach to food inspections for public comments late last week. If enacted, it would apply to all food commodities whether made
It does not meet all that often, but USDA plans on keeping the National Advisory Committee on Meat & Poultry Inspection. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service DSIS) Tuesday
A conversation with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator Al Almanza on the agency’s recently-launched Public Health Information System, which centralizes plant inspection data and makes it
Just before the 2012 Summer Olympics, restaurants in London are publicly posting their inspection ratings for the first time.
It’s not an A-to-F letter grade like those now seen
Practicing a little food safety while traversing South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore just got easier. The state health department has now put restaurant scores online along with grades for
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has entered the poultry inspection debate with a new scientific opinion on “the most relevant biological hazards to public health.” EFSA says Europe’s