Two months after Denver declared its outbreak of hepatitis A, the viral disease has taken the life of a resident of the Mile High City.
“Deaths from hepatitis A are rare, but they can occur,
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The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and
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3 states join contested Missouri ban on using “meat” on cell-cultured product labels
While lawyers continue talking in Missouri, lawmakers in at least three more states have passed bills to legally prohibit “mislabeling” of food products derived from animal cultures, plants or insects as meat.
Mississippi Gov, Phil
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Legislatures Weigh Bills on Soda Labels, Microbeads, Marijuana, Powdered Alcohol, Among Others
State legislatures remain in session from Alabama to Wyoming, with food safety mostly getting only a light touch from lawmakers who seem largely focused on budgets and education in this non-election year. In Alabama,
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59 in Mississippi Ill from Salmonella Tied to One Restaurant
The Salmonella outbreak in Corinth has now been pinned on a single restaurant, so there is no threat to the general public in northeast Mississippi, the state health department advises.
But the Don Julio Mexican
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Source Unknown in Mississippi Salmonella Cases
It is not unusual for Mississippi’s 82 counties to log 200 confirmed cases of Salmonella a month, yet a cluster of 11 cases that has popped up in the northeast town of Corinth is getting
Feds Declare Gulf Fisheries Disaster
Sample test results of oysters and water will be on the agenda today when the Louisiana Oyster Task Force meets in New Orleans. It comes a day after the federal government reportedly issued a fisheries
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