Tag Archives: Food Contamination and Poisoning

Wariness Over a Deal Intended to Deliver More Pork to China

If you dined on tilapia recently, chances are it came from China. And that artificial vanilla you just used to make cookies? It, too, may have made the same long journey to your kitchen in the United States. ... Read more

Foreign Food Inspections Decline as Illnesses Rise

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Inside a warehouse near the Canadian border, boneless hams bound for Philadelphia are coming off a tractor-trailer from Toronto under the gaze of a federal food inspector. Each week, ... Read more

Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on ‘Superbugs’

More than half of samples of ground turkey, pork chops and ground beef collected from supermarkets for testing by the federal government contained a bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to a new report ... Read more