South Korea confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu on Saturday and said it would expand the culling of birds to a radius of 3-km (1.9 mile) around a duck farm.
The Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak at a Tennessee prison that sent two of the nine infected inmates to the hospital is a subject of a new report pointing to a larger investigation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Laboratory tests on Washington State’s exotic shellfish export, the geoduck clam, have found no evidence of unsafe or excessive levels of arsenic, following Chinese ban on U.S. shellfish from the west coast.
Hundreds of people in Japan have been sickened by food contaminated with the pesticide malathion. Reports on the number of victims differ from at least 890 to more than 1,000.
French food group Danone said it would sue dairy exporter Fonterra and cut its supply contract with the New Zealand firm following a false alert that sparked the recall of infant formula across Asia.
China has held seven people in southern Guangdong province for injecting dirty pond water into lamb meat to swell its weight and raise its price, state television reported in the latest food scandal to hit the world's second largest economy.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Western Rice Mills Ltd. people with allergy to gluten not to consume Grande Harvest brand 12 Grain Blended Rice described below.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Thrifty Foods Port Place are warning the public not to consume the products described below due to possible chemical contamination.
A white-tailed deer that was struck and killed by a car in Bedford County, Penn. tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Meat industry trade publication Meatingplace is publishing an interview series with Brian Ronholm, new Acting Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Another five people in Saudi Arabia and one in the United Arab Emirates have become infected with the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
Public health authorities in Gunma Prefecture raided the factory of a Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. subsidiary Monday, a day after the firm said pesticide was detected in some of the food products made there.
Researchers found that an astounding one-third of U.S. water systems contain traces of at least 18 unregulated and potentially hazardous contaminants, many of which are linked to causing endocrine disruption and cancer.
Patrons who visited the Comstock Saloon, a San Francisco restaurant and bar, during several days in December may have been exposed to the Hepatitis A virus, according to local news station KGO-TV.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the operations of Leslie Leger & Sons, effective 20 December 2013 as the site failed to implement adequate controls for food safety.
Severnside Provisions Ltd is a premises that is approved for processing bacon, but the company has been processing turkeys in conditions that do not meet the required hygiene standards for food production.
