You can show consumers a food safety video, and give them food safety tools, but you can’t make them use food thermometers all of the time.
Study results just published by the USDA’s Food Safety
Continue Reading Researchers report impact of safety video on use of food thermometers
“Pandemic potential” or “pandemic-on-pandemic” are scary concepts these days and Chinese and British scientists are using those very terms to describe the threat from a new swine flu virus.
Not to worry, in one regard,
Continue Reading Fauci says nothing to fear so far from new G4 Swine flu virus
More than 83,000 pounds of raw beef products from a Nicaraguan company are under recall by a Texas company because they were not presented for import re-inspection into the United States.
La Bodega Meat LLC,
Continue Reading More than 40 tons of beef recalled because of re-inspection problem
A food chain important to Inuit in Northeastern Canada has been poisoned by a fuel slick off the coast of Labrador, potentially causing short and long-term food safety concerns.
Even when lethal impacts are not
Continue Reading Oil slick off coast of Labrador threatens food chain
Demand for fresh meat and poultry has not diminished but, because of COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities across the U.S., meat processing plants are struggling to keep up.
In an effort to help stop the spread
Continue Reading University of Nebraska-Lincoln sends hand sanitizer to USDA as COVID-19 cases soar in meat industry
Just as it was looking like American agriculture was going to survive the pandemic and planting was turning out successful, rural areas learned they were losing the weedkiller dicamba to protect the soybeans they’ve put
Continue Reading Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal
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Dear Editor,
I am responding to Brianna Leach’s article released
Continue Reading Letter to The Editor: Is contributing author HACCP trained?
On May 26, Food Safety News published an article written by law student Brianna Leach titled “The meat industry’s grip on government—time for an overhaul?”
If this essay by a law student is “the
Continue Reading Me thinks the lady doth protest too much — and is a Vegan
Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This
Continue Reading The meat industry’s grip on government — time for an overhaul?
Conagra Brands is recalling more than 270,000 pounds of Healthy Choice brand chicken and turkey bowl products because of consumer complaints about rocks in the products.
The recall follows an initial recall on April 20
Continue Reading Continuing consumer complaints spur Conagra to recall more Healthy Choice meals
The federal government this week signaled its willingness to take over any part of the food industry that isn’t functioning properly to keep production flowing.
For the moment, the extended authority is being provided to
Continue Reading From meat to fruits and vegetables, the fight to prevent food shortages moves on
