Following the lead of Sedgwick, Maine to exempt itself from state and federal food safety regulations, three other towns in Hancock County are now poised to adopt similar “food sovereignty”
Bills to allow the retail sales of raw milk have been referred to committees in the Texas Legislature.
No meetings or hearings have been scheduled on either HB 75, referred
It seems that tailored food safety regulations are closely following behind what has become a nationwide phenomenon: food trucks. Santa Monica is the latest municipality to adopt health standards specific
Restaurants in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County would receive a food safety rating and those inspection scores would be posted online under a proposal being considered by the county’s Board
Restaurants in Denver will have to pay higher fines for food safety infractions under new regulations recently approved by the City Council that went into effect over the weekend, the
The United Kingdom’s independent Food Standards Agency failed to reduce the incidence of Campylobacter in chickens by 50 percent, did not get the consumers to cut their salt in
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection (FSIS) has developed a compliance guide on known practices for pre-harvest management to reduce E. coli O157:H7 contamination
Late last year, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, in the first ever live Facebook chat between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the public, assured small meat processors
On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a law allowing the state of California to ban the sale, transport, or purchase of cows and pigs unable to stand
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released 17 warning letters to food manufacturers, accusing the companies of violating the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic act with false product
We cannot rely on beef and fresh produce companies to police themselves. Restaurants are sometimes inept, caring more about customer count than safety. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
U.S. Marshals in Nashville Wednesday seized $1 million worth of food from a Tennessee food processor and storage warehouse. The federal agency took the police action on behalf of