A newly released report has criticized America’s food safety watchdog for systemically failing to ensure the safety of what food manufacturers put in what we eat.
After months of research, the Government Accountability Office told Congress it was concerned about a well-known loophole in the Food and Drug Administration regulations that for decades has concerned consumer [...]

It’s happening again. A single salmonella-contaminated food item is forcing recalls of scores of other products throughout the country.
We went though this last year with contaminated peanuts from the Georgia and Texas plants of Peanut Corporation of America.
PCA recalled the tainted goobers, but the ripple effect spread for weeks as hundreds of manufacturers pulled thousands [...]

Remember last year’s epic recall of salmonella-tainted peanuts? The number of food manufacturers added to the recall list grew to more than a thousand over the following weeks because, it turned out, they were all buying goobers from Peanut Corporation of America.
Well, it may be happening again, but this [...]

Over the holidays I wrote about a meal we all wanted to avoid.
For the appetizer: San Antonio Bay oysters polluted with Noroviruses. For the main course: grilled beef infected with E. coli from contaminated tenderizing needles; chicken with Campylobacter or imported ham with Listeria monocytogenes. Then there’s a side dish of stuffing loaded with salmonella-contaminated [...]

Balsamic vinegar has been coveted by Italians for centuries. Over the past 30 or so years the popularity in the U.S. of the dark, syrupy ambrosia has soared and has become loved by foodies, used sparingly by chefs and often too liberally by home cooks.
Forgetting the exquisite culinary joy that comes with the almost magical [...]

I was in a grocery store yesterday when yells and curses drew me to the cereal aisle, where two women seemed to be having a total nut-out.  One was stomping on several brightly colored cereal boxes and the other was waving a box of the same cereal in the face of anyone who paused long [...]

The Coalition for Chemical Safety sounds like just the kind of group to which environmental activists would swarm.

After two years of research, health investigators have reported that slaughterhouse workers that suffered debilitating diseases of their nervous system were exposed to microscopic particles of pig brain.

Government researchers have found that high-fructose corn syrup, which is used as a sweetening agent in thousands of products, creates potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance when heated.

During the campaign and several times since, President Obama promised to do “everything possible” to increase the safety of America’s food supply.