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The US Food and Drug Administration Friday notified some 30 drinks manufacturers who combine alcohol and caffeine in their beverages that they must prove the products are safe.

The holiday season is a time for celebration and great food. The Holiday Food Safety Success Kit , developed by the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education, provides tips on how to make sure holiday meals are safe as well as delicious.

Thanksgiving is an opportunity to share a meal with loved ones, but it is also a time when small mistakes in the kitchen can lead to foodborne illness.

A Senate Committee Wednesday unanimously approved a much-awaited overhaul of the nation's food safety laws, though it gave little hint of how it would pay for the sweeping but costly reform of the Food and Drug Administration's system for protecting much of what the nation eats and drinks.

Poison pill? Critics say if new federal regulations are passed, it could financially kill small farmers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Englewood seafood importer Seoul Shik Poom Inc.

Americans may soon be able to enjoy their peanuts, peppers, spinach and cookie dough with greater confidence that those foods are safe to eat if the full Senate passes the food safety legislation that cleared a key committee today.

A Senate committee passed legislation on Wednesday that would increase government oversight of the U.S. food supply, which has been battered by a series of high-profile recalls that have soured consumer confidence in the food safety system.

Hundreds and possibly thousands of children in the United States become sick from contaminated food served in school cafeterias, USA Today reports.

WASHINGTON - A proposed ban on raw oysters that could be tainted with a potentially fatal bacterium has been put on hold while federal officials study how the ban would affect the Gulf Coast oyster industry.

Foodborne illness is underreported, has inadequate follow-up and a lack of research making its impact difficult to assess, a U.S. non-profit group says.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Public Health ; Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST An overwhelming majority of Wyoming voters - 88 percent - support food safety legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration new authority to ensure the ...

Boulder, COa 'Genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton have increased use of weed-killing herbicides -- a type of pesticide -- by 383 million pounds in the U.S. from 1996 to 2008, according to a new Organic Center report titled " Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years " ...

I really enjoy preparing for a family Thanksgiving dinner, but there's a lot to be done before the meal is on the table.

WASHINGTON a 'The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it has approved a fifth swine flu vaccine.

Shirley Almer's family expected her home for Christmas last year. The strong-spirited 72-year-old grandmother from Perham, Minnesota, had survived two bouts of cancer and was recovering from an infection with a brief stay in a nursing home.

Food-borne illness affect nearly 76 million people in the United States every year according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention .

There are more than 250 food-borne diseases that may infect a person at any time when contaminated foods or beverages have been ingested or when toxins or chemicals have contaminated food.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Article Date: 13 Nov 2009 Springer is founding a new journal Food Digestion , dedicated to a quickly growing area of research - food science combined with the physiology of digestion.

Everybody fears food poisoning for the acute illness it causes - nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps.