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Food Safety

  1. Recalls
    Oscar Mayer Just Recalled 2 Million Pounds of Turkey BaconThe company is concerned that some of the alt-bacon may have been “adulterated.”
    By Chris Crowley
  2. Comebacks
    Blue Bell Is Back in Stores on August 31 — Here’s Where to Find ItTexas and Alabama will be the first to get the ice cream back.
    By Clint Rainey
  3. Food Safety
    China Wants Nothing to Do With America’s Drugged-Up PorkBut it’s the world’s largest market — so our country’s farmers are thinking it might be time to reconsider a controversial, widely used muscle drug.
    By Clint Rainey
  4. Comebacks
    Blue Bell Is Officially Delivering Ice Cream Once AgainJust in time for the last stretch of summer.
    By Clint Rainey
  5. Lawsuits
    Woman Claims Her Starbucks Came With a Near-Fatal Dose of Cleaning SolutionShe’s suing the company for $2 million.
    By Clint Rainey
  6. The Chain Gang
    Wendy’s Is Testing Out Antibiotic-Free ChickenThe chain will see how it goes at a handful of stores.
    By Clint Rainey
  7. Food Safety
    Here’s Yet Another Reason to Hate CilantroThe FDA has discovered some gross, dangerous conditions in Puebla fields.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  8. Food Safety
    Peanut Executive Behind One of America’s Worst Salmonella Outbreaks CouldThe “unprecedented” sentence could serve as a wakeup call to the food industry.
    By Clint Rainey
  9. Food Safety
    Bad Sushi Causes Latest Salmonella OutbreakThe tuna is lurking in restaurants and grocery stores.
    By Clint Rainey
  10. Found Objects
    Americans Find Some Seriously Weird Stuff in Their Hot DogsYou probably don’t want to see a silverfish or “the tip of a razor blade” inside your next frankfurter.
    By Clint Rainey
  11. Food Safety
    Chinese Authorities Seized 100,000 Tons of Rotting, Smuggled MeatIt gets worse: Some of the meat had packaging dates going back to the 1970s.
    By Chris Crowley
  12. Food Safety
    Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Halts Production Yet Again Over ListeriaThe company’s shops had only just reopened after a previous shutdown.
    By Chris Crowley
  13. Video Feed
    Grisly Footage From a Costco Egg Supplier Shows Hens Crawling Over Dead OnesThe Humane Society went with the term “mummified pancakes.”
    By Clint Rainey
  14. Food Safety
    Food Companies Are Bracing for a Major Egg ShortageSome are even considering egg substitutes.
    By Clint Rainey
  15. Lawsuits
    Someone Has Sued Blue Bell for Causing ‘Profound Brain Damage’This Houston man says he “damn near died” from eating the ice cream.
    By Clint Rainey
  16. Recalls
    Blue Bell Has Laid Off 1,450 EmployeesAnother 1,400 are being furloughed, and everybody else is getting a pay cut.
    By Clint Rainey
  17. Interviews
    How the Blue Bell Recall Puts One Independent Scoop Shop in a Terrible Position“We’re just going to try to have to survive. “
    By Chris Crowley
  18. Food Safety
    An FDA Report Says Blue Bell Had Evidence of Listeria in Its Factories in 2013But newly unveiled information suggests the company kept shipping ice cream anyway.
    By Chris Crowley
  19. Recalls
    Blue Bell Ice Cream Could Be Back in Time for Memorial DayThe company says it’s an “ambitious” goal, but not an impossible one.
    By Clint Rainey
  20. Food Safety
    A Mysterious Bird Flu Is Killing Record Numbers of ChickensFive new reported cases could bring the death toll to 20 million birds.
    By Clint Rainey
  21. Food Safety
    NYC’s Food Trucks Might Soon Get Letter GradesIt would help bring legitimacy to vendors.
    By Clint Rainey
  22. Food Safety
    The CDC Now Says Blue Bell’s Listeria Outbreak Began in 2010Going forward, each batch of ice cream will get tested.
    By Clint Rainey
  23. Food Safety
    A Major Egg Supplier Is Dealing With a Bird-Flu OutbreakMany of its 5.3 million birds may have to be destroyed.
    By Clint Rainey
  24. Food Safety
    Blue Bell Expands Recall to Literally Everything It MakesListeria is lurking in products sold in grocery stores.
    By Clint Rainey
  25. Food Safety
    Sabra Recalled 30,000 Cases of Hummus Over Listeria FearsIt marks the third major recall tied to the bacteria in a month.
    By Clint Rainey
  26. Food Safety
    Blue Bell Shuts Down Yet Another Ice-Cream Plant Over Listeria FearsThe ice-cream company’s problems persist.
    By Clint Rainey
  27. Food Safety
    Brace Yourself for Drug-Resistant Food PoisoningThis is not great news.
    By Clint Rainey
  28. Food Safety
    Amy’s Kitchen Is the Latest Company to Recall Food That Might Kill YouThe spinach inside its frozen-food products is problematic.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  29. Bad News
    Antibiotic Use in Meat Is Soaring WorldwideIt could increase by two thirds between now and 2030.
    By Clint Rainey
  30. News You Can Booze
    Killjoy Government Really Wants Winemakers to Stop Aging Bottles UnderwaterApparently, they’re considered “adulterated.”
    By Sierra Tishgart
  31. Food Safety
    Kraft Issues a Massive Macaroni and Cheese Recall After Finding Metal ShardsNo reported injuries so far, but better to play it safe.
    By Clint Rainey
  32. Food Safety
    Blue Bell Ice-Cream Products Recalled After Being Linked to Three DeathsOfficials linked a listeria outbreak to a machine at the Texas production facility.
    By Clint Rainey
  33. Food Safety
    FDA Claims Dairy Farmers Are Slipping Illegal Antibiotics Into MilkA report revealed six drugs not approved for use in lactating cows.
    By Clint Rainey
  34. Food Safety
    MasterChef Judge Makes His Restaurant Diners Sign Waivers for TheirAustralian chef George Calombaris is apparently tired of getting blamed for food poisoning.
    By Clint Rainey
  35. News
    A Proposed New Health Department Rule Could Ruin New York’s Sushi SceneChanges to the code will require fish served raw to be frozen beforehand.
    By Hugh Merwin
  36. Food Safety
    Congress Moves to Create a Single Food-Safety Super-Agency From FDA and USDALawmakers say consolidation would make it easier to prevent foodborne illness.
    By Clint Rainey
  37. The Chain Gang
    Chipotle Nixes Pork From Hundreds of Restaurants After Finding ‘SupplierThe company has been suspended.
    By Hugh Merwin
  38. Important Studies
    Study Claims Food Vendors Don’t Change Their Gloves Nearly Enough56.9 percent of the time, to be more exact.
    By Hugh Merwin
  39. Food Safety
    A New Spray Could Save Everyone From Tainted CropsThis DNA “barcode” for the produce aisle can tell researchers where, exactly, any given vegetable came from.
    By Clint Rainey
  40. News
    McDonald’s Halts McNugget Sales in JapanJust as they were getting over that tainted meat scandal and a crippling French fry shortage, too.
    By Hugh Merwin
  41. Poison Apples
    Caramel Apples Have Been Linked to Four Deaths in a Listeria OutbreakThe CDC took a rare precaution and issued a statement advising consumers to avoid all commercially available varieties.
    By Hugh Merwin
  42. Gone Viral
    A Café Took ‘African’ Off Its Sign After Too Many People Asked AboutThe owner says that customers won’t even shake her hand anymore.
    By Clint Rainey
  43. Lunchtime
    The Mayor Ate Where the Ebola Patient Did to Prove That’s Not How You GetChicken and meatball, pork with mushroom, vegetarian with pesto, and absolutely no Ebola.
    By Clint Rainey
  44. Awful Things
    A Man Claims His Golden Corral Chili Contained a Snaggletoothed Rat Head“I was like, ‘Maybe, you know, sometimes you get a hard bean inside.’”
    By Clint Rainey
  45. Barfing There
    A Twitter Bot Is Helping the Chicago DOH Shut Down Dirty Restaurants“Sorry to hear you’re ill,” it will tweet at you. “The Chicago health department can help.”
    By Hugh Merwin
  46. Crime
    Slaughterhouse Owners Allegedly Ordered Employees to Process Meat FromThey allegedly put healthy heads on diseased cattle to fool inspectors.
    By Clint Rainey
  47. The Chain Gang
    Some McDonald’s in China Now Only Sell Fries and Soda“We are so sorry that we only have these choices for you.”
    By Clint Rainey
  48. The Chain Gang
    China’s Expired-Meat Scandal Now Includes Burger King and StarbucksThe country is already wary about food safety in the wake of tainted meat and melamine scandals.
    By Hugh Merwin
  49. Food Safety
    Salmonella-Tainted Chia Seeds Sicken Dozens of People Across North AmericaPut down the chia seed pudding.
    By Riddley Gemperlein-Schirm
  50. Salt Licked
    FDA Says Enough With All That Salt AlreadyThe agency will introduce “voluntary” guidelines to lower Americans’ sodium intake.
    By Clint Rainey
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