Liza B. Zimmerman

NEW YORK -- Two environmentalist groups are urging consumers not to eat swordfish, in a national campaign to save what they claim is a rapidly dwindling North Atlantic swordfish population.The Natural Resources...

SEATTLE -- A Washington state man who claimed he was a "milkaholic" lost a lawsuit against Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., and the Washington Dairy Products Commission, Lynnwood, Wash., in a high-profile court case that...

NEW YORK -- The consensus among most supermarket produce executives is that produce sales have not been hurt by a wave of critical news media coverage about produce and foodborne illness, spearheaded by a three-part...

A recent series of front-page articles in The New York Times on food-borne illness outbreaks linked to produce is raising concerns in the industry.The three-part Times series -- which ran earlier in January -- offered...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Chef's Promise, a new line of home-meal replacement options for the meat case and deli created by wholesaler/retailer Fairway Foods, is slated to hit retail shelves in select Minnesota locations...

Retail opinions are mixed as to what the Food and Drug Administration's approval of irradiation for red meat will mean in the real world of meat retailing.Irradiation proponents and nay-sayers from the retail...

MIAMI -- With a substantial number of food-borne illness occurrences in the United States now being blamed on produce, the industry must strengthen the weak links in its supply chain, said quality assurance...

With portabellas leading the way, sales of many specialty mushrooms have taken off across the country, according to retailers and other industry sources.The growth in mushroom sales generally is being tied to better...