A few years ago, I was in Portland investigating an E. coli outbreak at a local restaurant. By happenstance, I met one of the recovering victims. He was a strapping
The federal court in New Mexico next Friday will hear the motion for a preliminary injunction against USDA granting inspections to equine meat packing houses that are close to opening
In the weeks after the February grand jury indictment of four former Peanut Corporation of America executives, it seemed to be all about the former chief executive officer, Stewart Parnell.
It’s a rare Sunday that I think I might be able to settle something, right here and right now. An interesting incident occurred recently, mostly in the skies over
An Illinois man has filed suit against the Mexican Restaurant thought to be the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens in the state in June of this
A Vermont dairy farm has promised to stop selling cows and bull calves for human food that contain illegal drug residues in violation of federal law. The promise not to
Fines and probationary sentences for selling uninspected meat products top the enforcement report for the last quarter of enforcement activity by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS). USDA’
Illinois’s DuPage County Health Department has allowed the Los Burritos Mexicanos restaurant at 1015 E. St. Charles Road in Lombard to reopen while the source a June E. coli
Reflecting on a week of sleepless nights and gut-churning stress, George Bentley said he wished Costco’s recall of frozen berries could have come at a better time. Bentley, from
Federal felony charges of economic sabotage and domestic terrorism could be brought if whoever destroyed two sugar beet fields in Jackson County, Oregon earlier this month is ever brought to
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must publish all of the regulations required under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act by June 30, 2015, a federal judge ruled Friday.
A newly nominated federal judge ruled Friday that he wants to hear more about dairies in Washington State’s Yakima Valley that may be contributing to groundwater contamination, and he