Food Safety

The Advent of Food and Drug Regulation
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
One hundred years ago, government volunteers dined on carefully prepared foods laced with potentially poisonous preservatives in the interest of science.

Food Freshness : Food Preservation
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The technology behind the disk is based on a dye locked in a water-repellent material and used as a dot-shaped chemical indicator that changes color as a seafood product decomposes. As the gases from the seafood move through the dot and intermingle

Food Freshness: Current Technology
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Product dating is the most widely used means for consumers to determine when to purchase or use a food product at its best quality. Dates stamped on packages also help the store determine how long to display the product for sale.

Food Freshness: How Food Quality Deteriorates
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Consumer interest in food quality and freshness has prompted research into 'smart' packaging that can indicate when the food has begun to spoil. A walk through any grocery store indicates the diversity of today's food supply - raw vegetables, baked goods

Food Safety: An Interview With Joseph A. Levitt
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
As director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Joe Levitt is responsible for programs aimed at ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply.

Mad Cow Disease: Two Forms of CJD
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Another human TSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in its classic form, occurs worldwide at a rate of approximately one case per 1 million people per year. Classic CJD, unlike its new variant, nvCJD, is not known to be caused by consuming food made from cows

Avoiding Mad Cow Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Import restrictions and rigorous animal feed rules are designed to keep BSE, and the associated human neurological disease, out of the United States. Evidence suggests that certain contaminated cattle feed ingredients are the source of BSE infection

International Food Safety : Being Cautious
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The United States is not opposed to European countries adopting the precautionary principle, Carnevale adds, so long as it is not directed solely against foods they import from the United States.

International Food Safety : A Codex Consensus, The Biotech Dilemma
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
That brings the issue back to Codex, the object of Mike Wehr's many foreign travels. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, as it is formally known, was created in 1962. It is jointly run by two United Nations groups, the World Health Organization (WHO)

International Food Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
More foods from around the world are reaching U.S. dinner plates. International standards and cooperation help keep foods safe and encourage openness in the global food market.

Are Bioengineered Foods Safe? : Part 2
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The new form of the enzyme poses no food safety issues because it is virtually identical to nontoxic enzymes naturally present in the plant. In addition, the resistant enzyme is present at very low levels and it is as easily digested as the normal plant

Are Bioengineered Foods Safe?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Since 1994, a growing number of foods developed using the tools of the science of biotechnology have come onto both the domestic and international markets. With these products has come controversy primarily in Europe where some question whether these food

Campylobacter Food Poisoning : Vaccine
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A team of Navy, Army, and drug industry researchers is also moving ahead in the development of a prototype vaccine for Campylobacter. The vaccine has shown promise in animal models and currently is undergoing clinical trials.

Campylobacter: Food Poisoning Leader
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though not exactly a household word, Campylobacter causes millions of cases of food-borne illness every year. FDA is working to stem widespread contamination in poultry and increasing resistance to antibiotics.

Fake Food: When Food Companies Mislead Consumers
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Economic food fraud involves substituting something of lesser value for something of higher value and then passing off the product as one of higher value - for example, adding coloring to trout and falsely calling it salmon (a more expensive product)

Sprouts: Food Poisoning Risk?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Sprouts have only recently emerged as a recognized source of food-borne illness. Since 1995, health officials have attributed 13 food-borne disease outbreaks worldwide to sprouts. Ten of these outbreaks occurred in the United States, resulting in illnesse

Juice Safety: Food Poisoning From Unpasteurized Juices
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fresh squeezed orange juice. Sparkling apple cider. All-vegetable cocktail. Americans quench their thirst with these and other fruit and vegetable juices, and the vast majority of those juices are not only healthy but safe.

Eggs: Safe Egg Handling, Salmonella Threat
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Salmonella is commonly found in the intestinal tracts of animals, especially birds and reptiles. In humans, Salmonella infection can cause salmonellosis, an illness characterized by fever, stomach cramps and diarrhea, which typically develop eight hours

Safer Eggs: The Importance of Eggs
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Because eggs go through many channels and are handled in many ways before reaching someone's plate, FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in May 1998 that they would seek to identify

Irradiation: Safer Food
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A measured dose of radiation can kill bacteria on or in food before it is shipped to stores, protecting consumers from potentially deadly food poisoning. And, no, it won't make your dinner glow in the dark.