The USDA believes it has the answer to preventing tens of thousands of cases of food poisoning each year.

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Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new and stricter testing standards for use by chicken and turkey farmers to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in their flocks.
The Food Safety Inspection Service says [...]

It has been a long time coming, but after years of ignoring or at least downplaying the fact that millions of gallons of honey imported into the U.S. each year are illegal, tainted with animal drugs or diluted with phony sweeteners, four of North America’s prominent honey dealers today warned the public to beware of [...]

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 [...]

In what appears to be important news for victims of traumatic brain injury and stroke, the tropical spice cinnamon has been found to prevent brain cells from swelling.
The swelling is a condition in which fluid either accumulates within brain cells or is retained in blood vessels that form around brain cells.

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.

“In God we trust. Everyone else must test for E. coli.”