Topic: Food Safety

Food safety law: Six ways it will make food safer

With the stroke of a pen, President Obama on Tuesday inaugurated the biggest reform in food safety in years. The Food Safety Modernization Act contains changes in rules and procedures that only a bureaucrat could love. Some Republicans threaten to prevent funding its reforms. Still, the law has unusually broad support in Congress, the food industry, and consumer groups. Here are its Top 6 reforms, which will make your food safer:
01/05/2011 02:53 pm

Obama signs historic food safety law: Will it make dinner safer?

The food safety law aims to secure the farm-to-table food chain. But some Republicans are threatening to hold up funding, saying the food supply is already '99.999 percent safe.'
01/04/2011 07:00 pm

Ground beef recall: 34,000 pounds of contaminated beef in six states

Ground beef recall by a California company affects over 34,000 pounds of organic ground beef products that have been exposed to E. coli.
12/31/2010 01:59 pm

Eggs. Shrek glasses. Sure, but what was the top recall of 2010?

It was a year when contaminated eggs and McDonald's glasses found their way into the headlines. But the product fiascos of 2010 included everything from recalled cars and home appliances to food and medications. What was the year’s top recall? Read on:
12/31/2010 09:00 am

Fewer bad eggs? Food safety bill is revived, heads to Obama's desk

Landmark food safety bill, all but dead because its funding was tied to the ill-fated omnibus spending bill, was revived by the Senate Sunday. Obama is expected to sign it by Christmas.
12/20/2010 01:43 pm

Food Safety Act: five food recalls that rattled the industry

The Senate's passage of the Food Safety Act, the most sweeping food-safety law in 70 years has thrown a spotlight on the US food supply. Here are five of the most recent high-profile food safety cases:
11/30/2010 06:46 pm

Senate clears bill to tighten food safety. Will House go along?

Food Safety Modernization Act passed the Senate Tuesday on a bipartisan vote. The legislation, which gives the US added powers to inspect and recall, moves to the House, where hurdles remain, especially over cost.
11/30/2010 02:13 pm

Food safety bill 101: What are the facts and myths?

The Food Safety Modernization Act has riled everyone from liberal 'locavores' to conservative tea party groups. Here's a rundown of what's really in the Senate bill.
11/23/2010 08:58 pm

Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of November 15, 2010

Readers write in about issues of food safety, Britain's budget cuts, and help for Pakistan's landless poor.
11/15/2010 03:24 pm

Egg recall: DeCoster-linked farm releases contaminated eggs. Again.

Egg recall this past week involves megafarmer Jack DeCoster, whose farm was part of this summer's huge 550 million egg recall.
11/09/2010 06:00 pm

Editor's Blog Why you should care where your dinner has been

When you plop down your money for bananas or fish sticks at the supermarket, you are buying into an increasingly global supply chain. That raises questions about food-safety laws.
10/26/2010 05:27 pm

Safety in the world's food supply

A Christian Science perspective.
10/26/2010 09:35 am

Food safety: How to keep our global menu off the recall list

As the food recall list grows and food imports flood into the US, it may be time to revamp America's 70-year-old laws on food safety.
10/23/2010 10:56 am

Food safety: 'Made in China' attracts the long arm of the FDA

With only two inspectors in China, the FDA has little food-safety enforcement power but definite influence on food made in China for import to the US.
10/23/2010 10:55 am

In Pictures From Field to Fork: The foreign and domestic food chain

Deli meat recall announced for meat sold at Walmart

Deli meat recall: Roast beef and ham distributed to delis at the nation's largest retailer might be contaminated with Listeria bacteria.
08/24/2010 06:16 pm

Egg recall: Does it rank with other major food recalls?

[Editor's note: For an updated list of brand names and plants involved in the egg recall as of Aug. 26, click here.] Egg recall? It's just the latest in a number of high-profile food recalls in the United States in the past five years. The rate of major food-borne illnesses is down since the 1996-98 period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported earlier this year. But with food production concentrated in large companies with regional or nationwide distribution, the US has seen several major food recalls. Among the biggest (click the right arrow for each new item):
08/23/2010 07:31 pm

Chapter & Verse Five books to read after checking the egg recall list

Here are five books that help to place the egg recall in context.
08/23/2010 12:00 pm

Egg recall: Supplier reported to have history of health, safety violations

Two farms that recalled 450 million potentially-tainted eggs have links to an Iowa businessman reported to have been cited for 'numerous health, safety, and employment violations.'
08/22/2010 12:59 pm

Photos of the Day Photos of the Day 08/04

Lettuce recall doesn't hide progress on food safety, experts say

The lettuce recall has many questioning the safety of US produce, but voluntary adherence to food safety standards has led to progress since the E. coli outbreak in 2007.
05/07/2010 07:34 pm

In Pictures Babies around the world

In Pictures Major product recalls

Global News Blog China executes two in tainted milk scandal

China executed two milk producers from last fall's tainted milk scandal on Tuesday. The scandal raised questions about China's business culture.
11/24/2009 12:00 am

China reins in more rights activists by seizing computers

A raid Friday targeted lawyers who had done pro bono work for those affected in last year's tainted milk scandal.
07/17/2009 01:00 am