Food Science News

What happens when Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill reach a historic agreement on a legislation that's been the subject of decades of battle? Sometimes nothing.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will mark up a bill to improve food safety this Wednesday, November 18.

" U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today announced the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a bipartisan food safety reform bill to modernize the Food and Drug Administration's ability to protect consumers.

Concord, NH During this busy holiday season, the Department of Health and Human Services' Bureau of Food Protection wants to remind everyone to follow some important food safety practices to avoid foodborne illnesses, such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Campylobacter.

Many of you don't trust front-line workers not to slack off. Now, with the H1N1 virus making everyone jittery, you have to trust them to be cleanly? That's too much to ask.

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a far-reaching food safety bill drafted in the wake of the massive salmonella outbreak that was traced to a Georgia peanut processing plant earlier this year.

Senate committee passes FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Nov. 19, 2009 The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, by a voice vote on Wednesday.

Federal officials have sent warning letters to two central Minnesota dairy farms for allegedly using high levels of antibiotics in cows.

Oysters on the Gulf Coast - including those in lugged by Cedar Key water men - are safe from a proposed federal Food and Drug administration "warm months" ban for now.

The thick, black binder that Paula Gillett keeps charts her son Jack's battle last year against a food-borne illness caused by E. coli.

Thursday the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill cosponsored by Senator Richard Burr , passed out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

The US Food and Drug Administration Friday notified some 30 drinks manufacturers who combine alcohol and caffeine in their beverages that they must prove the products are safe.

The holiday season is a time for celebration and great food. The Holiday Food Safety Success Kit , developed by the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education, provides tips on how to make sure holiday meals are safe as well as delicious.

Thanksgiving is an opportunity to share a meal with loved ones, but it is also a time when small mistakes in the kitchen can lead to foodborne illness.

A Senate Committee Wednesday unanimously approved a much-awaited overhaul of the nation's food safety laws, though it gave little hint of how it would pay for the sweeping but costly reform of the Food and Drug Administration's system for protecting much of what the nation eats and drinks.

Poison pill? Critics say if new federal regulations are passed, it could financially kill small farmers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Englewood seafood importer Seoul Shik Poom Inc.

Americans may soon be able to enjoy their peanuts, peppers, spinach and cookie dough with greater confidence that those foods are safe to eat if the full Senate passes the food safety legislation that cleared a key committee today.

A Senate committee passed legislation on Wednesday that would increase government oversight of the U.S. food supply, which has been battered by a series of high-profile recalls that have soured consumer confidence in the food safety system.

Hundreds and possibly thousands of children in the United States become sick from contaminated food served in school cafeterias, USA Today reports.