Texas Creamery Blue Bell to Plead Guilty, Pay $19M over Listeria Outbreak May 4, 2020 By Nate Raymond Texas-based ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries has agreed to pay $19.35 million and plead guilty to charges that it...
Chipotle to Pay $25 Million, Implement Safety Plan to End Foodborne Illness Charges April 22, 2020 Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. will pay $25 million to resolve criminal charges related to the company’s foodborne illness outbreaks that...
A Coronavirus Outbreak Among Farm Workers Would Be Catastrophic: Viewpoint April 3, 2020 By Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg View There is no evidence that Covid-19 has been transmitted by food or food packaging, according to U.S. federal health agencies....
Cattle Ranchers Worry Despite Having Tech to Track Diseases March 17, 2020 By Corinne Boyer, Kansas News Service Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information...
North Dakota Creamery Recalls 1% Milk Pending State Investigation March 9, 2020 Cass-Clay Creamery in North Dakota has recalled 1% milk that may have been contaminated with a sanitizing agent that’s used...
Food Workers Sue to Stop Trump Plan to Speed Up Pig Slaughterhouse Lines October 8, 2019 By Mike Dorning A food workers’ union filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block a Trump administration move to end limits on the...
New Hog Slaughterhouse Rules Please Firms, Worry Food Safety Advocates September 18, 2019 By Tom Polansek U.S. food safety and the health of plant workers will be at risk from new federal rules that allow meat...
Bulgaria Fights Spread of African Swine Fever July 18, 2019 Bulgaria has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of deadly African swine fever and protect the country’s 600-million lev...
China’s Pig Farms Tighten Biosecurity to Beat African Swine Fever July 16, 2019 By Dominique Patton A devastating outbreak of African swine fever that has killed millions of pigs in China is changing attitudes in a...
China’s Swine Fever Losses May Be Twice as High as Officially Reported July 1, 2019 By Dominique Patton and Hallie Gu As many as half of China’s breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of...