Published: Oct 10, 2018

A medical researcher at a leading Thai university has warned that some fruit and vegetables in Thailand contain high levels of pesticides.

Published: Oct 10, 2018

Chances are, you’ve already heard that the menu is the dirtiest item in a restaurant — harboring about 185,000 bacteria, which is just one of the many everyday items that are dirtier than a toilet seat.

Published: Oct 09, 2018

Secondary recalls have been popping up in the Johnston County Hams Listeria monocytogenes outbreak.

Published: Oct 08, 2018

A McDonald’s customer was horrified when she squeezed ketchup out of a dispenser at the fast food chain and said she found maggots crawling inside it.

Published: Oct 08, 2018

JBS Tolleson of Tolleson, Arizona is recalling about 6,500,966 pounds of raw, non-intact beef products (ground beef) because these products are associated with a Salmonella Newport outbreak.

Published: Oct 08, 2018

Johnston County Hams has recalled about 89,096 pounds of ready-to-eat ham products after a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak was identified.

Published: Sep 29, 2018

Five people, including a child, suffered serious side effects after consuming fruit juices found to contain potent steroids, said Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in an advisory on Thursday

Published: Sep 29, 2018

Thursday, PM Scott Morrison said that Australian shoppers need to back farmers besieged by the contaminated fruit scare.

Published: Sep 29, 2018

The Vibrio outbreak that was linked to fresh crab meat imported from Venezuela has ended, according to the FDA.

Published: Sep 28, 2018

A Florida Taco Bell is being investigated after a Lee County sheriff’s deputy claimed he was served burritos that smelled and tasted like bleach.

Published: Sep 28, 2018

Biosecurity New Zealand is investigating how potato mop-top virus (PMTV) could have entered the country.

Published: Sep 28, 2018

We all know flu is bad.

Published: Sep 28, 2018

In Israel, a snack called Bamba is credited for a dramatically lower rate of peanut allergy among children.

Published: Sep 28, 2018

Against the backdrop of EU sanctions on Nigerian beans for not meeting EU standards, Dr Vincent Isegbe, Coordinating Director, Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), whose agency is responsible for issuing clearance for agro exports/imports.

Published: Sep 27, 2018

United Fresh is spearheading a major project, led by New Zealand, reviewing traceability systems in the produce sector following the Australian strawberry tampering scandal.

Published: Sep 27, 2018

Due to phytosanitary problems with products from the republics of Belarus and Serbia, Russian watchdog ‘Rosselkhoznadzor’ decided to inspect the process of storing apples in these two countries.

Published: Sep 26, 2018

Agricultural supply platform Twiga Foods has announced plans to set up facilities to test fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues.

Published: Sep 26, 2018

The Australian strawberry scare has spread to New Zealand with a supermarket chain announcing Sunday that needles were found in a box of the fruit sourced from the neighbouring country.

Published: Sep 25, 2018

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that 2,173 lab-confirmed domestically acquired Cyclospora cases in 33 states were reported from May through August.

Published: Sep 25, 2018

Biosecurity New Zealand is working with Potatoes New Zealand to respond to a detection of Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) in potato tubers in Canterbury.