Safety

'Warning Labels: Curse or Blessing for Food Industry?

Generally consumers are told to be beware before buying something and it is their responsibility to be informed about the happenings.
By Shilpa Chakravorty

  • 'Food Safety News: FDA Warns 3 Dairy Farms, 2 Food Importers

    Recently, three dairy farms based in the United States, and two food importers received warning letters from the Food and Drug Administration.

  • 'Chipotle to Close Stores on February 8 for Food Safety Meeting

    The food chain is closing down all of their stores on February 8 to hold a national staff meeting on food safety. The company's 1,900 restaurants are expected to take part of the said meeting.

  • 'Bacon Bad for You? The Truth Behind Claims that Processed Meats are Carcinogenic

    Is bacon really bad for your health? After the World Health Organization rates bacon as Group-1 carcinogenic, dieticians and scientists weighs in on the rating.

  • 'USDA Claims Pesticide Level in Foods NOT A Threat

    The annual Pesticide Data Program Report, which contains data from food samples collected in 2014, has revealed that food with low pesticide residue levels is safe and that it will not even pose a health risk to children or infants.

  • 'Bad News for Chipotle: Studies Reveal Fresh Food Not As Healthy As It Seems

    According to CNN Money's recent series Raw Ingredients, about half of 48 million illnesses in the US per year is caused due to contamination of sfresh produce.

  • 'FDA: Pizza Boxes Contains Chemicals Not Safe For Food

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a i ban effective Jan. 4 on the use of certain chemicals used in pizza boxes and other similar products, after studies show that these have potential risk to our health.

  • 'Lessons from the Chipotle Fiasco: How To Avoid Food Poisoning

    Since news about the Chipotle food poisoning broke, a lot of people became more concerned about the food they eat. The public began to realize that even renowned brands and giant food chains can also be the breeding ground for the next food related fiasco in town.

  • 'Blue Bell Creameries Target Of Listeria Controversies

    The U.S. Department of Justice is questioning Blue Bell Creameries over listeria contamination issues. According to Entrepreneur.com and Wall Street Journal, three deaths were associated with the outbreak. Government authorities are trying to investigate the causes of such outbreak.

  • 'A Serious Citrus Epidemic Strikes Phoenix Food Banks

    A quarantine problem in the citrus industry within the other states will probably make fruit donations in Phoenix food banks slow down. St. Mary's Food Alliance and United Food Bank in Mesa stopped taking in citrus donations due to the quarantine problem that is in effect as announced by the Arizona Agriculture department, according to Yahoo! News. St. Mary's Food Alliance and United Food Bank are the primary citrus donation charity organizations in Phoenix.

  • '5 Dangerous Food Fallacies and Practices

    Celebrated author and TV personality Julia Child once joked: "Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?" Kitchen practices in relation to food health and safety, in truth, have been evolving. Microbial activities, including bacterial benefits and detriments, have been undergoing a huge amount of demystification. A number of practices and measures believed to be safe - even healthy - in the past have been proved otherwise. A few of these have been compiled by food microbiologist and Food Safety Information Council vice president Cathy Moir.

  • 'Crickets and Crawling Insects: A Cambodian Delicacy

    Eating bugs is not a strange thing in Asian ergonomic landscape. But snacking on crickets and other crawling insects is more popular among Cambodians. In other Asian countries exotic foods are served in specialty restaurants, but in Cambodia, they are peddled in every corner of the country.

  • 'NASA: From Finding Life on Mars to Growing Potatoes on Mars

    How possible is crop-growing on Mars? Although the Matt Damon film 'The Martian' based on a novel by Andy Weir is riddled with plotholes and errors scientifically speaking, the fact of growing plants on Mars is actually not far-fetched. NASA scientists, in cooperation with International Potato Center (CIP), will experiment with growing potatoes under simulations of Mars-like conditions.

  • 'Chipotle Mexican Grill Linked to Another E. Coli Outbreak: Five People Fell Ill in the Midwest

    Chipotle Mexican Grill is suspected of being at the center of yet another E. coli outbreak.
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