Food Safety
109 Articles & Excerpts
Initiatives for Import Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In a stepped-up effort to protect consumers from dangerous foreign foods, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, FDA is cracking down on companies that flagrantly violate U.S. import laws. FDA is cracking down on importers like Tak Yuen that flagrantly violate
Life on a Fish Farm: Food Safety a Priority
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Aquaculture - or fish farming - has had a far-reaching impact on what America puts on the dinner table. Several government agencies are making sure that the products of this industry are both safe and nutritious.
Listeria : Old, Tough Germ
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
L. monocytogenes is not new. What is relatively new is the recognition that L. monocytogenes bacteria may be spread in food. It has been only in the past decade that researchers have recognized L. monocytogenes as an agent of food-borne illness.
Deli Items May Dish Up Dose Of Listeria
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Causes of listeriosis, a food-borne illness, have been traced to deli foods, some soft cheeses, and other common foods. Though this bacterial infection may not produce symptoms in healthy people, it can cause miscarriage and be deadly to people
On FDA's Front Lines: Investigators Protect Public
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Responding to emergencies, as well as inspecting more than 90,000 establishments in this country, is part of FDA investigators' work. And there's no college in the world that can fully prepare them for it.
FDA Asks Shoppers About Food Label Formats
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Five format designs with five food products were used in this survey. Participants were asked to perform tasks that could show how well the formats could be used to compare nutrient differences between like products, and to choose the format they consider
Alaskan Dilemma: Native Food Preparation Fosters Botulism
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Native Alaskans have for centuries prepared whale blubber and other fish in traditional ways. But these methods promote the growth of bacteria that cause botulism, a potentially fatal disease.
Seafood Safety : Seafood Sicknesses
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reflecting this growing preference for fish, FDA has stepped up its programs to ensure the safety of seafood. Last March, an Office of Seafood was created within the agency's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to strengthen the agency's domestic
Hooked on Seafood: Seafood Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Summertime is prime time for seafood. But some consumers are worried about whether fish is safe. While there are some snags - especially with raw shellfish - generally seafood is a safe catch.
Food Irradiation: Toxic to Bacteria, Safe for Humans
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA has said it would allow the use of irradiation to kill bacteria on poultry as safe and effective. But consumer apprehension may prevent its use. People often become ill after eating contaminated poultry.
Is That Newfangled Cookware Safe?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
It's twice as hard as stainless steel, it conducts heat 28 times faster than glass, and it's nonstick for life. Anodized aluminum this new material is just one of the many new inventions that have revolutionized the cookware industry in the past 10 years.
Canned Food Safety: The Canning Process
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The canning process is a product of the Napoleonic wars. Malnutrition was rampant among the 18th century French armed forces. As Napoleon prepared for his Russian campaign, he searched for a new and better means of preserving food for his troops
Food Safety Crucial for People with Lowered Immunity
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food-borne microorganisms cause tens of millions of cases of intestinal illness each year in the United States. For most healthy people, the distressful vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea are blessedly short-lived.
Food Safety: Is It Worth the Worry? Determining Risk
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The revelation that certain foods might pose health risks can elicit public reactions ranging from mild concern to panic. Are we worrying most about the wrong risks? Is outrage a valid factor in risk determination?
Red No. 3 and Other Colorful Controversies
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The lure of red cherries in canned fruit cocktail is legendary in many American families. Siblings fight over them, parents use them to bribe or treat their children, and even adults count the cherries spooned into their dessert.
On the Trail of the Alaskan Oil Spill
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Al Duzenack looked down and grimaced. It was 5 o'clock in the morning on a dark, dreary day in Valdez, Alaska, last July. And it was a good 30 feet down a wet, slippery metal ladder from the weathered dock where a tired Duzenack stood to the pitching
Bovine Growth Hormone: Harmless For Humans
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Generations of Americans have been told that Milk is nature's most perfect food, and the nutritional value of milk supports this claim. Milk sustains infants and is also beneficial to adults, including the elderly.
Salmonella Enteritidis: From The Chicken To The Egg
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Especially at risk for Salmonella poisoning are the elderly, the very young, pregnant women (because of risk to the fetus), and people already debilitated by serious illness, malnutrition, or weakened immune systems.
EBDCs: Becoming a Household Word
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
EBDCs have been used in the United States since the mid-1940s to control mold, mildew, and other fungal diseases in crops. This class of chemicals, which includes mancozeb, maneb and metiram, has been under review by the Environmental Protection Agency
Food Biotechnology
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The new biotechnology is in the news so much these days that it now goes by the handy nickname biotech. In medicine, it has assumed heroic proportions, with Science magazine hailing it as the last great technical innovation of the 20th century
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