“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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
Two consumer groups want to see government and industry do something instead of nothing when it comes to keeping certain bacteria out of Americans’ diets via contaminated poultry.
The groups’
When USDA’s second quarter of the fiscal year ended on March 31, livestock slaughter was off only 2.2 percent from the first quarter and poultry production was actually
