They’ve many years invested and their latest legal arguments ran 198 pages, but Food and Water Watch and their many allies wanted something pretty simple.
They wanted the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Continue Reading EPA likely will have to speak up on CAFOs
For the second time this year, romaine lettuce growers are imposing measures they hope will end the recent string of E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks that were associated with their products last year. This latest action
Continue Reading California growers say their new water rules mean safer romaine for everyone
Leaders at the Food and Drug Administration charged with implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act knew agricultural water standards weren’t going to be met by someone in Washington D.C. snapping their fingers.
They decided more
Continue Reading Rep. DeLauro says she’s had enough with FDA’s delays in water quality enforcement
Findings of E. coli in more than one in 10 tests on private water supplies in Scotland is “unacceptable,” according to the body that regulates water quality.
A report from Scotland’s Drinking Water Quality Regulator
Continue Reading E. coli levels in private water supplies in Scotland deemed ‘unacceptable’
Editor’s Note: The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food
Continue Reading Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year
A federal judge in Baltimore has promised to issue his written decision, which could determine the future of the entire poultry industry on Maryland’s eastern shore, by year’s end. U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson
Continue Reading Promise of Decision in Chesapeake Bay Poultry Case Before Year’s End
Philadelphia International Airport has lost its “approved” status for watering and aircraft servicing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an Aug. 9 warning letter to airport executive Mark Gale.
In the warning
Continue Reading Questions Over Water Quality at Philly Airport
It’s berry season. Time for some chlorine.
No, we’re not talking about chlorine as in sunglasses and swimming pools but rather chlorine as in berry farmers and irrigation water.
And while the juxtaposition of
Continue Reading Berry Lovers Benefit from Food Safety Scrutiny
Between 35 and 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking contaminated water, a public health calamity causing one in five deaths in the country, according to new research published
Continue Reading Millions Chronically Exposed to Arsenic in Water
The City of Saratoga Springs, Utah, issued a boil water order for the northern half of the city this week after Campylobacter bacteria were discovered in the city’s culinary water system.
According to an
Continue Reading Water Source of Campylobacter Outbreak in Utah
