WASHINGTON (FNS) -- A leading consumer group focusing on food and health issues will meet later this month with industry groups to discuss why consumers lack confidence in irradiated food and what uses of the bacteria...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Five industry groups are challenging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration here in court over a new workplace inspection program that is being called coercive and illegal.Among the food...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The supermarket industry witnessed extremely low food inflation for 1997, with prices up just 1% over 1996 levels.The low inflation in the industry reflected intense competition, an abundant supply...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- For irradiation to become widely used as a food-safety measure, consumers have to want it -- but a newly planned campaign to persuade them to want it faces an uphill battle.Three food-trade...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Arkansas poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. will pay $6 million to the federal government as part of a plea agreement settling charges it made illegal gifts to former U.S. Department of Agriculture...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- President Clinton is expected to ask Congress for an additional $71 million in funding for food-safety programs and the food industry is concerned about how the money will be spent.Clinton's...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's release of proposed standards for labeling organically grown produce and meat has renewed debate between all-natural farming advocates and federal policy makers...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture isn't likely to issue standards for red-meat irradiation until at least February, but irradiators say potential customers in the meat industry are already...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Organic food retailers and several industry trade associations said last week they will fight any attempts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that would officially label irradiated, genetically...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The Food and Drug Administration will soon give a thumbs up for meat processors to use bacteria-killing irradiation on red meat, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman...