Vaccine Tested In Fight Against Tainted Beef
Jason Timmerman coaxed a balky calf into a chute on his feedlot one recent afternoon and jabbed a needle into its neck. He was injecting the animal wi...
Jason Timmerman coaxed a balky calf into a chute on his feedlot one recent afternoon and jabbed a needle into its neck. He was injecting the animal wi...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.
AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, fede...
Christina Pirello | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
It's on the evening news and in newspapers all the time. Not a day goes by that someone isn't talking about health, how to eat, what to do about obesity, heart disease and diabetes and our food supply.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Larry King and cheap processed meat. They've got a lot in common: both smush together scraps of debatable value and dubious origin and extrude them as suitable fodder for our more credulous compatriots.
Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
A new study put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has ranked the ten foods that the FDA regulates which have caused the most...
Marion Nestle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
Center for Science in the Public Interest has a new report out on the 10 foods that cause the most cases of foodborne illness. So how come Congress isn't forcing all food producers to produce safe food?
The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green
Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...
Morgan Jindrich | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
This week, Make Our Food Safe, a coalition of public interest safety groups are taking the message of safe lunches to the streets.
Thomas Frank | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
If universal health insurance goes down to defeat, Democrats will have to live with the shame of having been beaten by arguments that a novice debater would have no trouble putting down.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!
Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
While the government conducts daily inspections of factories that churns out meat and poultry products, it can take five years before the FDA inspects a spinach farm or a peanut-processing plant.
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The White House is trying to make Americans' food safer after recent recalls of popular products like peanut butter and cookie doug...
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
I am not a sushi fan. However, since many of my friends are, I have been more open to trying it out.
Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy
It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.
ABC News | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/story?id=7080622&page=1 | Posted 04.14.2009 | Home
Food safety officials are gearing up for E. coli season, the period each year when the potentially deadly bug starts to show up more often in ground b...
Michael Markarian | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Lax agency enforcement of humane slaughter rules continues to allow unacceptable abuse of animals and food safety risks.
New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Late last month, the Agriculture Department announced its 20th recall of beef this year because of contamination with a toxic strain of the bacterium ...
AP | Jeffrey Gold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A division of Dole Food Co. issued an international recall of bagged salad Monday after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E. c...
nytimes.com | William Neuman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living