food safety

When my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our first child, our thinking about food safety seemed to shift overnight. Fears that we once disregarded suddenly morphed into potential threats we had to assess for our son's sake.

On a personal level, it’s Saturday morning.

"It's a war" Steve Tebbets USDA Commodity Protection and Quality Research Entomologist

A recent CNN article about the FDA oversight of chemicals in foods is puzzling.  Author Sandee LaMotte regurgitates a ludicrous demand by t

If you buy a frozen leg of lamb at the supermarket how do you know whether it has thawed at some point from the provider to the market and then refrozen?

E. coli. Salmonella. Campylobacter. Norovirus.

Pest control and microbial disinfection protocols often utilize ultraviolet (UV) light. The reason is because UV light is extremely damaging to cells.

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Last winter Consumer Reports came out with a relatively new s