The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is harnessing the expertise of the University of California, Davis to sequence the genomes of 100,000 types and subtypes of deadly foodborne bacteria to help the agency corral contamination outbreaks, such as the multistate Listeria contamination last year that killed 25 and sickened over a hundred. The announcement is…

With the water boiling and the ingredients all diced and ready to go into the pot, the stew should have been ready by now—but it is not. Last year President Obama signed into law a bill to overhaul food safety in the United States, a sweeping food-policy change not seen in 70 years. But not…

When ordering that extra slice of apple strudel or apple pie, consider the 8th annual “Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce” from the Environmental Working Group (EWG): Apple has again earned the dubious distinction of topping the list of the group’s annual “Dirty Dozen,” a report ranking the fruits and vegetables that most often carry…

Following a growing trend toward healthy—as well as safe, as practised by restaurant workers with  food handler certification or a food safety certification training—offerings the U.S. restaurant scene, Whataburger, the Texas-based regional burger chain with over 700 restaurants in 10 states., recently debuted new menus that hew to the healthy side of the fast-food lane….

With $400 million worth of beef destined for 4th of July grills, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a video advising backyard chefs how to grill food safely. The video demonstrates the four steps of safe food preparation for outdoor cooking. These steps—familiar to those with food handler certification or food safety certification…

George Washington says…CLEAN John Adams says…SEPARATE Thomas Jefferson says…COOK Benjamin Franklin says…CHILL The food safety campaign, Food Safe Families, takes on patriotic colors for the Fourth of July with “4 Steps to Food Safety from Our Founding Fathers,” which targets backyard chefs. The Food Safe Families campaign is a project of the nonprofit Ad Council…

It sounds rather gross but “meat glue” has been part of the dining experience for quite a while now, much like Texas Food Handlers or a Food Manager Certification Texas has been an integral component of food safety in protecting public health. Meat glue, like it or not, is the discreet but ubiquitous meat addend that…

Remember Jensen Farms, the grower whose cantaloupes caused last year’s multistate Listeria outbreak that killed 36 people and sickened 146 others? The company has made it known that it is going to settle the cases ranged against it since the outbreak, the country’s worst in a century as far as fatalities are concerned. Listeria contamination…

As the food industry continues to be held back by food recalls and the public to suffer foodborne illness outbreaks, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) announced this June that it has availed itself of the expertise of two food-safety authorities to bolster its food-safety efforts, a move that at once acknowledges the prevalence of food-safety…

From the get-go food safety has been all about food handling and food preparation. But in case some didn’t get the memo, the International Food Information Council Foundation in 2006 endeavoured to track food-safety practices in the U.S. population amid growing food-safety incidents and outbreaks of foodborne illnesses. Because proper food and food-product handling is…

The Food Standards Agency (FSA), the government’s food-safety watchdog, is dampening the crackle of fish and chips and other greasy goodies this Olympic summer by going after unlicensed burger vans (which purvey not just burgers but also all the other stadium staples) in an attempt to protect the millions of visitors to the Olympic Games…

The goose that laid the golden egg is about to get cooked. Or so it must feel much that way for the Microbiological Data Program (MDP), the small government testing program that screens fresh produce for pathogens was first to detect Salmonella in bagged organic baby spinach that culminated in a nationwide recall this May….

Those who have been tossing and turning in their sleep because of the recent recall of bagged salads for fear of having been infected by some nasty, green and not-too-eco-friendly pathogen should stop now.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled its recall order of May 30, after determining that its initial test…

Not to worry, that tuna is safe. The fear that fish migration has carried harmful amounts of radioactivity from the waters near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has been debunked by scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. Indirectly, the study…

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has published a comprehensive response to solicited comments regarding its new policy on testing raw beef trimmings for additional strains of E. coli. In its response, printed in the Federal Register, FSIS confirmed that it will start testing raw beef trimmings for six other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli…