UPDATE: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended today’s deadline for comments for both the produce rule and the preventive controls rule for one week to
There are not many people or voters in rural counties, but there sure are a lot of rural counties. In Garfield County in Washington state, almost 82 percent of the
Tennessee health officials have given a raw-milk cow-share operation that has been linked to an E. coli O157 outbreak that has sickened 9 children — all of them under 7 years
Trade experts say we should not expect to see a decline in food exports and imports when figures become available for Oct. 1-16, 2013, the period of the partial government
Just because you can’t see something with the naked eye doesn’t mean it isn’t there. While that statement certainly doesn’t qualify as rocket science, it is,
Ranchers in western South Dakota have lost tens of thousands of cattle in the past two weeks as a freak snowstorm left some parts of the state under as much
The nation’s largest organic peanut butter company and the first food business to ever lose its federal registration during an outbreak of foodborne illness now finds itself in Chapter
The largest organic peanut butter processor in the United States has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, ending its existence. Sunland Inc., the Portales, NM company linked to the September 2012
Colorado officials are working with farmers to address potential crop and soil contamination after severe flooding hit Northeastern Colorado last month. Their biggest challenge will likely be assessing flood-affected fields
Orange County Produce is voluntarily recalling fresh red and green bell peppers after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised that a random sample of the peppers had tested
At least 27 Floridians have been sickened this year – and nine have died– from infections of Vibrio vulnificus, a deadly bacterium that lives in warm seawater and is commonly associated
According to the Grundy County Health Department, 35 people are ill after eating at Hacienda Don Villo, a Mexican restaurant in Channahon, IL. The county’s health administrator Phil Jass