Published: Sep 15, 2015

Darling Downs Fresh Eggs has been fined AUD$250,000 ($177,233) for mis-labeling its eggs as ‘free range’. This case was brought before the court by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Published: Sep 15, 2015

In Iowa City, Iowa, people are picking food from their neighbors’ gardens and it’s all part of the plan. Juicy red tomatoes, herbs, and other locally grown edibles are free for the taking, thanks to a new spin on the community garden.

Published: Sep 15, 2015

The food industry in Hawke's Bay was ready to party last night after confirmation the Hastings District Council has become the first local body in New Zealand to block genetically modified food production.

Published: Sep 14, 2015

In the wake of several foodborne illness outbreaks in the US, the country's watchdog has finalized two rules that require firms to identify food safety risks and detail measures to prevent or minimize such risks from occuring.

Published: Sep 11, 2015

San Diego-based Andrew and Williamson Fresh Produce has now recalled all Mexican cucumbers sold under the Limited Edition® label during the period from Aug. 1, 2015, through Sept. 3, 2015, because they may be contaminated with the Salmonella strain respon

Published: Sep 11, 2015

Is a simple cost-benefit analysis the right prism through which to view a preventive food safety program? Richard Williams’ interesting, but ultimately misguided, critique of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) strongly relies on cost-benefit worries

Published: Sep 11, 2015

A technical review panel of the Almond Board of California has given its seal of approval to another chemical-free process for pasteurizing almonds. The technology being marketed by RF Biocidics of Sacramento uses radio frequency waves to zap pathogens, i

Published: Sep 11, 2015

Food Safety News is six years old this week. We are not planning on gathering around a birthday cake at some undisclosed location. I think we tend to think of it less as a birthday and more as a beginning — of our seventh year, to be exact.

Published: Sep 11, 2015

First, the statistics. At the time that President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law in 2011, the United States imported about 15-20 percent of its domestic food supply, and as many as 70 percent of the food importers were smal

Published: Sep 11, 2015

A report released Wednesday by the American Association for Justice argues that the civil justice system is better at getting the food industry to ensure the safety of their products than foodborne illnesses.

Published: Sep 11, 2015

Lung cancer and a brain tumor didn’t kill my mother — Salmonella-contaminated peanut butter did.

Published: Sep 11, 2015

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong has found traces of malachite green in two tinned fried dace samples.

Published: Sep 10, 2015

Public Health England is investingating into an outbreak of E.coli O157 linked to prepackaged salad that has sickened 38 people.

Published: Sep 08, 2015

Members of the Fruit Merchants’ Association on Sunday denied that they were indulging in artificial ripening of fruits with chemicals, especially calcium carbide.

Published: Sep 01, 2015

Back to school not only means back to the books, it means back to the bad lunches.

Published: Sep 01, 2015

Within days of stating that it was not possible for it to continue with product approvals, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday put up a public notice for "engagement of legal assistance for framing regulations".

Published: Aug 28, 2015

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden today announced that Whole-Farm Revenue Protection insurance will be available in every county in the nation in 2016. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is also making changes to the policy to help farmers

Published: Aug 24, 2015

Alphin Brothers Inc., a Dunn, North Carolina-based seafood processor and wholesale distributor, was recently sentenced in federal court for falsely labeling imported shrimp as wild-caught, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Published: Aug 21, 2015

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong has prohibited the import of oysters that are harvested in British Columbia, Canada for raw consumption.

Published: Aug 20, 2015

Freefalling milk prices seem to have finally found a bottom, as prices on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction site bounce by 15%, following a rally in the dairy futures market.