A government working group consisting of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released for public comment a set of proposed voluntary principles that the agencies urge be used by industry as a guide for marketing food to children and adolescents.
When government and industry were looking for a way to identify more rapidly the presence of the pathogenic Clostridium perfringens bacterium in food and water, Daniel Fung of Kansas State University realized he had a potential solution on his shelf.
The turkey industry ends 2010 the same way it began, with several bright spots standing out amid ongoing economic and political uncertainty. For the first nine months, the industry enjoyed
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in October 2009 that, beginning with the 2011 season, it would require post-harvest treatment of live Gulf Coast oysters harvested in summer months for control of pathogenic Vibrios, the industry was taken by surprise.
