Approximately 45% of the fruit and vegetables produced worldwide are not consumed but lost, due not only to bad weather during growing or delayed harvesting, but also storage and transport challenges, especially in developing countries.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new report on scientific breakthroughs discovered by USDA researchers that led to new patents and inventions with the potential for commercial application and potential economic growth. Among those breakthroughs are antimicrobial packets that keep food from spoiling and flour made out of chardonnay grape seeds that prevents weight gain.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday published a guidance document to aid retail delicatessens in controlling Listeria monocytogenes. The agency is soliciting public comments on the guidance through June 20, 2014.
The social networking platform Twitter has announced the winners of its inaugural data grants program, which will give selected research institutions access to the entire history of tweets related to their research topics. One of the six institutions, Harvard Medical School (in conjunction with Boston Children's Hospital), plans to use the Twitter data to study foodborne illness.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released its 2013 Food Safety Progress Report, which shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the United States.
American Meat Institute (AMI) General Members yesterday voted unanimously to proceed with a merger with the North American Meat Association (NAMA), slated to occur Jan. 1, 2015.
During a Jan. 14 event held at USDA headquarters and called "Safety Datapalooza," FSIS officials announced that several years worth of data on Salmonella and Campylobacter is now available to industry and the public via Data.gov.
Today an alliance of food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators published a toolkit to help businesses in the food sector reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfill.
Green Bay, WI-based Cherney Microbiological Services, Ltd. today announced that it is expanding its laboratory testing services by adding a location in Clovis, NM.
Scientists at Purdue University have just published research in the Journal of Animal Science explaining how they used a three-phage cocktail to reduce E. coli O157:H7 in experimentally contaminated ground beef and spinach.
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