Health Matters America Inc. of Cheektowaga, NY, has voluntarily recalled is Organic Traditions Sprouted Chia Seed Powder and Sprouted Chia & Flax Seed Powder due to possible Salmonella contamination. The
According to a May 16 investigation update from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more than 1,000 dogs have died and thousands of complaints have surfaced since
In the third walnut recall in less than a week, Sun Tree LLC of Phoenix, AZ, announced May 23 that it was voluntarily recalling 46 cases of 24-count, 12-ounce produce
(This May 16, 2014, blog post by Brian Ronholm, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is reposted here with permission.
Interest is growing in indoor agriculture as consumers seek fresh food sources closer to home raised with fewer (or no) pesticides and herbicides and their concerns increase about the effects
(This article written by Christopher Peak was published May 8, 2014, in the Point Reyes Light. Peak also took the photos.) Newly disclosed documents about Rancho Feeding Corporation, the Petaluma
An antimicrobial product used to disinfect and sanitize food contact surfaces in the restaurant and manufacturing industries is now being tested directly on food and has shown a “materially significant
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued six warning letters between April 16-22, 2014, for food safety-related violations inspectors indicated they had observed at various establishments. Hahn’s
County public health officials say that a worker at a Teavana tea store in Indianapolis, IN, may have exposed shoppers who drank free tea samples to the Hepatitis A virus.
Food Safety News writers James Andrews and Cookson Beecher came home from the April 26 Washington Press Association awards banquet with nine awards, all of them in the daily news
The Baltimore City Health Department and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have received more than 100 reports of illness after the Food Safety Summit held April 8-10
(This article was first published April 15, 2014, by the Australian Institute for Food Safety and is reposted here with permission from AIFS.) Infected snail meat, poisonous mushrooms, goat meat