Published: Jan 21, 2019

Recalls of potentially hazardous meat and poultry in the United States, according to a new report from US PIRG Education Fund.

Published: Jan 18, 2019

U.S. PIRG, the federation of state PIRGs (public interest research groups), has found that the recalls of potentially hazardous meat and poultry recalls nearly doubled from 2013 to 2018.

Published: Jan 17, 2019

On January 14, 2019, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) issued a message to set import limits for spiromesifen in coffee beans.

Published: Jan 17, 2019

Russia's Animal Quarantine Supervision Bureau conducted a sample survey of meat products from Argentina and Brazil.

Published: Jan 17, 2019

News of the government shutdown’s impact on federal public health agencies has raised concerns about the safety of the U.S. food supply.

Published: Jan 17, 2019

Scientists in India have discovered how Salmonella enters plants to cause pre-harvest contamination of produce.

Published: Jan 17, 2019

Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the quality and safety of the food they consume and, therefore, there is a generalized rejection of the use of chemical pesticides in food production.

Published: Jan 16, 2019

Fiji’s Ministry of Agriculture is determined to have all fruits and vegetables with pesticide residue on them confiscated.

Published: Jan 16, 2019

Food producers in Hong Kong have been urged to improve their recipes after a test on cookies and sweet pastries found that most samples contained genotoxic carcinogens, chemicals which have been linked to cancer.

Published: Jan 15, 2019

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru, have found that Salmonella, an infectious bacteria, is seen to contaminate pre-harvest and the bacteria is seen to enter the plant even from infected soil.

Published: Jan 15, 2019

Mongolia's Central Veterinary Laboratory reported on Jan 14 that there were 4 cases of African swine plague in 4 provinces of the country. Orhon Aymag had 250 pigs died of African swine fever.

Published: Jan 11, 2019

A new pest detected in two farm fields in Darlington County has resulted in a quarantine of South Carolina sweet potatoes by Louisiana and Mississippi.

Published: Jan 11, 2019

The CDC has released a final update on the outbreak of E. coli.

Published: Jan 10, 2019

Certain candies made by a company in Kentucky could be contaminated with hepatitis A, a highly contagious infection that typically affects the liver, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a recent warning to consumers.

Published: Jan 10, 2019

Workers who are exposed to pesticides or metals on the job may be significantly more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases, a U.S. study suggests.

Published: Jan 09, 2019

There is a food with shelf-life of just to 2018.12.31, by 2019.1.1 is expired? Is expired food "bad"?

Published: Jan 09, 2019

Months after a court ordered a ban on chlorpyrifos sales, a pesticide linked with neurological deficits in children, state officials reported they found chlorpyrifos-contaminated fruits and vegetables for sale in California.

Published: Jan 08, 2019

About how many people do you know who claim to have food allergies? While some of them might be legitimate, many purported food-allergy claims may be false alarms.

Published: Jan 08, 2019

Most people think about food poisoning during warm weather months, but food poisoning can happen any time of the year.

Published: Jan 04, 2019

Fiji’s Ministry of Agriculture has embarked on a pilot program to screen pesticide residue on vegetables and fruits at municipal markets around the country.