Taylor Farms of Salinas, California received welcome news Friday when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed the company that the bagged salad it had been asked to recall for potential E. coli contamination was in the clear after all.
Live chicks and ducklings from a mail-order hatchery in Ohio, have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that had sickened 93 people in 23 states in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A chicken processor has been hit with a proposed fine of US$67,600 (€54,779) by the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
In a first-of-its kind summary of fish consumption choices, a team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital has determined that consumers are not getting all the information they need to make informed decisions about fish consumption.
Meat industry experts are calling the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) latest plan to test domestic and imported ground beef products for six different strains of E coli unnecessary and a waste of resources.
In what could be a prelude to a Senate floor debate over crop insurance spending, the Environmental Working Group released a study Thursday that documents large subsidies to farms to lower their cost of buying crop insurance.
Sampling of raw beef manufacturing trimmings for six non-O157 strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) is set to begin from 4 June 2012, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has confirmed.
Orange oil has demonstrated a real ability to inhibit growth of E.coli 0157: H7 on beef at refrigeration temperature and could be considered as an additional method to help combat the bacteria.
For decades, US fisheries have tested the algal toxin levels of shellfish caught for human consumption by processing a sample of the shellfish in a blender and injecting the resulting slurry into the abdomen of live mice.
Bluefin tuna, carrying radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's nuclear power plant, have travelled over 6,000 miles across the Pacific to the US. It is the first time a large migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
Jensen Farms, based in Colorado, US, that grew cantaloupes which were associated with a Listeria outbreak in the US last year, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been urged by three members of the US Senate to increase its enforcement of regulations that prevent the “imitation” of standardised dairy products.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has issued warning to consumers and food businesses in Australia, asking them not to use or sell two direct mail order products labeled, Tempeh Starter Yeast and Super Starter Yeast.
Food safety and shelf-life enhancing products with no special processing requirements will be unveiled at trade-show IFT next month, according to the US-based developer.
Jensen Farms - the cantaloupe grower pinpointed as the source of last year’s deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak – has filed for bankruptcy in the US.
