It's not like this is some wasteful government program. It's a relatively cheap way to help save lives, so what's going on?
Cathy Erway | Posted 02.01.2012
When is a soup not a soup, in my humble opinion? I would say when it's made with dehydrated crystals of vegetable, meat, and monosodium glutamate, in a packet or bouillon cube.
Deirdre Schlunegger | Posted 12.18.2011
The public must demand that food from the market and restaurants, from small and large farms, from domestic and international locations, is free of contaminants. The FDA now has the authority to ensure a safer food supply and they need the funding to get it done.
Posted 07.24.2011
A full two-thirds of U.S. voters are willing to pay more for safer food, according to a recent survey commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trusts. S...
Slashfood | Posted 06.12.2011
We've all been there: You hear a snippet about a recall on television or the radio, but don't catch the batch number or where the product was sold. No...
Laurel Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
I will always stand up for the rights of cheesemakers to produce raw milk product. That doesn't mean I'm concurrently endorsing foodborne illness epidemics or food safety anarchy.
AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011
MINNEAPOLIS — Food industry workers who become whistleblowers gained protection against retaliation from their employers with a little-noticed p...
Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011
Midsized farms may ultimately bear the full brunt of the Food Safety bill. But to what extent have the food contamination scares in recent years been traceable to them?
Fedele Bauccio | Posted 05.25.2011
Food is never completely sterile. But the importance of supporting our nation's small farmers outweighs far smaller food safety risks.
Barbara Kowalcyk | Posted 05.25.2011
The law contains key elements of Kevin's Law, named in memory of our son who died in 2001.
William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011
I resolve in 2011 to spend even more time in Washington D. C. trying to explain to Jack and his buddies, "why it is a bad idea to allow your constituent to be poisoned."
Amy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember "freedom fries"? That's what Republicans renamed french fries after France refused to support the invasion of Iraq. This year, renaming fries might be the extent of food regulation that Congress is willing to support.
AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Foreshadowing the coming power struggles between the White House and a more Republican Congress, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ...
Susan Yager | Posted 05.25.2011
The FDA will now be allowed to do a mandatory recall of tainted food "when a company fails to voluntarily recall the contaminated product upon FDA's request."
Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011
Salmonella in eggs, peanuts, tomatoes, and spinach; and melamine in pet food and candy imported from China... With a regularity that has become downri...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed by the U.S. Senate December 22 and headed for President Obama's signature, aims to enhance the safety of foo...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending i...
Josh Ozersky at Time.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate's Food Safety Modernization Act, prematurely announced as a done deal a week ago, is stalled again -- or "doomed," if you go by some news o...
EatingWell | Posted 05.25.2011
Isn't it time that we held food manufacturers more accountable and inspected the sketchy ones more often than every 5 to 10 years? Isn't it time that we stop playing Russian Roulette at the buffet table?
William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011
To the chagrin of everyone who worked hard to get the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act passed out of the Senate Monday, the bill is now facing a significant uphill battle.
Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate held hands, mostly, Tuesday night to pass the sweeping Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73-25. The landmark food safety bill all...
Roll Call | Nov. 30, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011
A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a ...
Sen. Harry Reid | Posted 05.25.2011
The system to prevent contaminated food from ever getting as far as the kitchen table failed. That's why I led the Senate in passing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Elizabeth Hitchcock | Posted 05.25.2011
Once it's enacted, this historic legislation will protect consumers from preventable food-borne illness. This victory for consumers comes not a moment too soon.
AP / The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Scroll down to read key points from S.510, the Senate's food safety bill. The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to make food safer in the wake of dea...
Michele Simon | Posted 04.25.2012