President Barack Obama submitted his administration’s budget proposal for fiscal 2014 to Congress on April 10, and requested $4.7 billion for the Food and Drug Administration.
With the state legislative season starting to wind down — 9 of the 50 states have already adjourned for the year—those who want food with GMOs labeled or banned are running out of venues for scoring such a win.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with five federal agencies to reduce by 50% the number of tribal homes lacking access to safe water and basic sanitation in Indian Country by 2015.
Gourmet Express Marketing, an Addison, Illinois, food distributor, has settled federal civil and criminal cases brought against it for mislabeling fish products and overstating the weight of shrimp.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it is requesting a budget of $4.7 billion in fiscal 2014, including $295.8 million to implement new food safety regulations.
There have been a few signs this week that state health departments are beginning to prepare for the still unlikely event of China’s expanding outbreak of H7N9 bird flu reaching the United States.
British supermarket chain Asda said on Tuesday very low levels of the horse pain-killing drug phenylbutazone, also known as bute, had been found in horsemeat discovered in tins of corned beef in the first such case in Britain.
On April 5, the Centers for Control and Prevention updated the number of consumers who have fallen ill and may have consumed frozen food products manufactured by the Rich Products Corp., Buffalo.
The news that some types of fish are being mislabelled or substituted and sold for other cheaper varieties underlines the need for consumers to demand more home-caught Scottish fish from retailers, restaurants and takeaway outlets.
Three major cities in China have suspended trade in live poultry while the rest of the country remains on edge after 18 cases of H7N9 in humans have been reported in East China.
An outbreak of E.coli O121 has sickened 24 people from 15 states, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS).
Nearly 70% of commercial pre-packaged meals and savoury snacks for toddlers in the US have high levels of sodium, which may present long-term health risks,
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Congress should come up with a better solution for handling unwanted horses than slaughtering the animals for meat for human consumption.
18 doctors urges the Food and Drug Administration to rigorously apply existing Generally Recognized As Safe standards for soft drinks to energy drinks and other beverages in which caffeine is an additive.
