This week, President Donald Trump released an outline of his first federal budget. His 2018 budget plans include slashing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) funding by a whopping $4.7 billion.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reported this week that there was a significant decline in the number of human cases of Campylobacter in 2016.
Gottlieb, 44, is a partner at a venture capitalist firm that focuses on healthcare investments and has a long history with both the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Ouleout cheese from Vulto Creamery in Walton, NY has been identified as the most likely source of a Listeria outbreak that has sickened 6 people in 4 states. Two of those illnesses resulted in fatalities.
A Tennessee chicken farm that supplies meat to Tyson Foods is confirmed to have a deadly form of bird flu, prompting South Asia to reject imports of American chicken.
Researchers at Tuskegee University--a historically African American college in Alabama--have secured a patent for a faster and more efficient way to detect live bacteria that could contaminate the nation’s food supply.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more imported foods--primarily fish and produce--are the cause of foodborne disease outbreaks.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has teamed up with the Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) for the purpose of training its laboratory personnel on testing methods for mycotoxins, pesticide residues and veterinary drug residues.
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