PROVIDENCE–With implementing regulations held up at the White House’s Executive Office of Management and Budget (OMB), officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are finding
Big Fresh has the blood on its hands.
The big fruit and vegetable lobby managed to kill a little food safety program that cost this $3 trillion government a grand
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to publish a new produce safety rule and will extend the comment period on it to 120 days, according to
Ben England and Rick Quinn, whose clients leap over regulatory barriers with help from the bevy of consultants and attorneys at their aptly named FDAImports.com, are not mincing their
You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block.
As gardeners bring fresh produce indoors, questions of food safety may not be on their minds. Here is the hard-earned product of carefully nursed seedlings, plenty of mulching, watering and
Apples, celery and strawberries are at the top of the latest “Dirty Dozen” list compiled by the Environmental Working Group, while onions, sweet corn and pineapples are among the “Clean
As uncertainty continues over the source of Germany’s E. coli outbreak, which as of Thursday had sickened 1,600 people and killed 18, one clear question emerges: If the
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its annual Pesticide Residue Data on fresh fruits and vegetables, and consumer groups who questioned why the information was four months late
A group of scientists and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) are urging federal regulators to speed up the release of the government’s latest data on pesticide residues in fruits
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) working at the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, have developed and patented