A Massachusetts husband and wife who blame their 8-year-old son’s death on the ground beef they bought at a Whole Foods Market have sued the supermarket chain and the ranch they say produced and processed the meat. Melissa and Andrew …
A fired Michigan prison food service worker has filed a whistleblower complaint, saying she lost her job for reporting falsified records and kitchen practices that endangered health and food safety. Amy McVay, 25, who worked at the Gus Harrison Correctional …
Food safety advocates say a guilty verdict in a rare federal food-poisoning trial should send a stern warning to anyone who may be tempted to place profits over people’s welfare. More than five years after hundreds of Americans got sick …
A Maine company is recalling more than 25,000 pounds of beef dating to last November for failure to remove tissues that could potentially allow transmission of mad cow disease. Maine state officials announced last Friday that Bubier Meats of Greene …
Russian news agencies reported Thursday that the country’s food safety agency will conduct checks on McDonald’s restaurants in the Urals following food safety complaints, a day after four branches of the chain were shuttered in Moscow. Natalya Lukyantseva, an official …
Jurors at the nation’s first federal criminal trial stemming from a deadly outbreak of foodborne illness are learning a disconcerting fact: America’s food safety largely depends on the honor system. Witnesses say Stewart Parnell and others at Peanut Corporation of …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday reforms to decades-old processes for inspecting poultry facilities in a bid to cut down on the number of foodborne illnesses, but dropped an industry-backed plan to speed up production. Under the new …
China’s food safety agency on Tuesday announced a nationwide inspection of processing factories and meat suppliers used by a company accused of selling expired beef and chicken to McDonald’s and KFC. The weekend report by a Shanghai TV station that …
Foster Farms and its London insurers are facing off over the definition of “product recall” as the poultry producer seeks payment of $14.2 million in claims arising from a government-mandated shutdown of one of its plants, court documents show. The …
The first reports of illness trickled in, just as they always do, to the offices of William “Bill” Keene, Oregon’s top food safety sleuth. The outbreak involved a potentially deadly strain of E. coli. Keene and his colleagues sprang into …