Vantage Foods of Winnipeg has issued a voluntary recall of some Safeway-brand ground beef sent to stores in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northeastern Ontario due to possible E. coli contamination.

U.S. Marshals executed an inspection warrant at Westco Fruit and Nuts (Westco/Westcott) based here, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Wednesday.

All 150 members of the Mexican association for companies that grow produce in greenhouses and other covered structures, known as protected horticulture, recently committed to be certified under the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program of the Food...

Setton Pistachio expanded its voluntary recall of pistachios this week, as a precaution, to include raw shelled pistachios from the 2008 crop that are not subsequently roasted prior to retail sales.

Western Pistachio Association in conjunction with the Cal-Pure co-op of California has created a consumer website at www.pistachiorecall.org that lists brands that do not contain pistachio products from Setton Pistachio, the Terra Bella, Calif...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting genetic tests to establish a possible link between consumer illnesses and samples of pistachios containing multiple strains of salmonella as the list of recalled products expanded last week...

Produce Marketing Association executive Kathy Means expressed “concern” about a report issued last week by the Office of Inspector General that looked at compliance to the federal Bioterrorism Act.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration here is conducting genetic tests to establish a possible link between consumer illnesses and samples of pistachios containing multiple strains of Salmonella.

Although the majority of Americans feel that foods in supermarkets are safe, the percentage who feel this way has decreased over the last five years, according to The NPD Group.