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At least 25 Minnesotans have been sickened with salmonellosis linked to eating a raw Mexican-style cheese, queso fresco, state health officials said Monday.

Food labs in the United States were found to produce high levels of inaccurate results in a retrospective study of nearly 40,000 proficiency test results over the past 14 years presented on May 20, 2013, at the 2013 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology .

COURT CLEARS COMMERCIALIZATION OF ROUNDUP READY ALFALFA May 20, 2013 Agri-Pulse reports: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld USDA's decision to commercialize genetically engineered alfalfa, according to the decision published Friday.

Farmer Phil Schmitt and his sons Matt and Phil Jr. loading boxes of cabbage onto a flatbed at the family's Riverhead farm in 2011.

A $5 million food-irradiation facility at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport is expected to increase business by officials who say it increases food safety and extends shelf life of perishable foods.

In the past few weeks, you may have asked yourselves,"Why should I care about Raw Milk regulations? I don't drink raw milk." Does this concern Illinois citizens? In February, Gov.

The West Virginia University Randolph County Extension Service will host a ServSafe certification course and exam on May 29 and 30.

Nearly half the rice and rice products on sale in Guangzhou contain too much cadmium, a toxin and carcinogen that can damage the kidneys, a three-month investigation by the city's food safety authorities found.

Given how often they're on the floor, occasionally inside a public restroom, it should come as no surprise that a third of women's purses crawl with E. coli.

Starting July 2, federally inspected meat plants in Canada will be required to label beef steaks or roasts that have been mechanically tenderized, the federal government announced Friday.

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has received word that the U.S. Department of Agriculture could complete a final rule for implementing a catfish inspection program by this October, Cochran reports in a release.

SEATTLE After being infected with E.coli for the second time in her life, a Seattle woman wants to make restaurant inspection reports in Washington as public as possible, modeling efforts in New York and California.

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says new rules to improve food safety will go into effect over the next two months.

An alarming amount of American meat harbors not just pathogens, but "superbugs" - antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

China is not ready for mass consumption of insects, which the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation says could help solve the food crisis An expert says China is not ready for mass consumption of insects, which the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation claims could protect the environment and help solve the food crisis.

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The Institute of Food Technologists will host its annual meeting and food expo July 13-16 at McCormick Place South in Chicago.

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Newswise - CHICAGO-With nearly 400,000 items in every grocery store , there are hundreds of different ways a packaged food can be labeled.