McDonald’s Sued by Consumers in Proposed Class Action Over E.Coli Outbreak October 30, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions...
McDonald’s E. Coli Crisis Reveals Vegetable Contamination Is Harder Problem Than Beef October 28, 2024 By Waylon Cunningham Moves by major U.S. fast-food chains to temporarily pull fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was...
McDonald’s Is Racing to Contain Fallout From E. Coli Outbreak October 24, 2024 By Daniela Sirtori and Deena Shanker McDonald’s Corp. is trying to contain the fallout from a severe E. coli outbreak that appears to be linked to...
UK Tightens Scrutiny of All Indian Spice Imports Amid Contamination Allegations May 16, 2024 By Rishika Sadam Britain’s food watchdog has applied extra control measures on all spice imports from India, it said on Wednesday, becoming the...
Sniffing Out Particles, Singling Out Pigs: Food Industry Urged to Embrace Robots, AI May 6, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson E.coli in beef. Metal shavings in bread crumbs. Contaminated water on vegetables. The food industry has its share of quality...
California Grower Recalling Avocados Over Listeria Fears March 26, 2019 A Southern California company is voluntarily recalling whole avocados over possible listeria contamination. Henry Avocado, a grower and distributor based...
Regulators Wonder If One Farm’s Tainted Milk Is Isolated Case or Broader Problem March 20, 2019 By Richard Valdmanis and Joshua Schneyer For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought...
Over 7 Tons of BBQ Beef Recalled by Ohio Company April 10, 2018 Federal authorities say an Ohio-based food company is recalling more than 14,000 pounds of pulled barbeque beef products that could...
European Egg Scandal Widens August 14, 2017 By Lorne Cook The European Union said Friday [July 11] that it plans to hold an extraordinary meeting late next month over a...
UK Hikes Estimate of Pesticide Contaminated Eggs; No Public Health Risk Expected August 11, 2017 By Joe Easton The U.K. raised its estimate of eggs contaminated by the unauthorized pesticide fipronil, with the outbreak believed to have affected...