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It is time to promote food safety, as increasing number of people have been suffering from various diseases in recent time due to widespread use of harmful chemicals in foods, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday.

It's no secret olive oil, the delicious staple responsible for the rich flavors and heart-healthy benefits of the Mediterranean diet, is fast becoming dear to the American palate.

Foodborne illness outbreaks, caused by everything from spinach to peppers, have sickened hundreds in recent years and have snagged the public's attention.

At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture A joint public meeting focused on improving the system for tracing of food products and ingredients that are causing illness outbreaks or presenting other risks to the health of consumers was announced today by the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department ...

The victims of the nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and was linked to nine deaths are infuriated prosecutors have yet to bring charges against the company at the center of the investigation.

At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence.

Oregon Sen. Jackie Dingfelder of Portland and Maye Thompson of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, in a recent opinion piece on The Stump argued for state legislation to prohibit the chemical bisphenol-A in food packages sold in Oregon.

Curly's Food, Inc., a Sioux City, Iowa, establishment, is recalling approximately 12,181 pounds of roast beef deli products because they were inadvertently mislabeled and contain an undeclared allergen, soy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

Cook those bean sprouts well, advises Health Canada, if you want to reduce the risk of exposure to food borne illness.

IN THE US, manufacturers of nutritional supplements have welcomed the latest good manufacturing practice regulations and increased Food and Drug Administration enforcement as developments that will eliminate fringe manufacturers and improve the industry's overall image.

November 3, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward to implement the agency's May 2009 final rule revoking tolerances, or residue limits, for the pesticide carbofuran.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition have sent a team of seafood specialists to Bangladesh this week to help train local officials on aquaculture safety and quality control ...

Stan Frankenthaler is director of culinary development for Dunkin' Brands. A few weeks ago, McDonald's wanted to talk about coffee.

Two people have died and 28 people have fallen ill with matching strains of E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

MALVERN, Pa. & STAFFORD, England - PuriCore , the life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary, green solutions that safely, effectively, and naturally kill infectious pathogens without causing harm to human health or the environment, today issues an Interim Management Statement covering the three-month and nine-month ...

The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus has been found for the first time in a commercial swine herd, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday.

New York Firm Recalls More Than 545,000 Pounds Of Ground Beef Products That May Be Contaminated By E. Coli - Gillibrand Renews Call For Federally Mandated Testing Of All Ground Beef Last Update: 11:18 am NEW YORK FIRM RECALLS MORE THAN 545,000 POUNDS OF GROUND BEEF PRODUCTS THAT MAY BE CONTAMINATED BY E. COLI - GILLIBRAND RENEWS CALL FOR FEDERALLY ...

Maybe somebody at the Food and Drug Administration had a bad episode with an oyster or had some Oysters Rockefeller that didn't go down well over some fancy lunch at a Washington eatery, but the agency has hit new heights in hubris this past week.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest--known for pointing out the caloric crimes of fast-food and chain restaurants--has turned its attention to the dangers of foods that we generally think of as being healthful.