If you’ve been spending more time in the kitchen lately or have decided to commit to meal prepping, it’s likely that a food processor is on your radar. These kitchen workhorses are a multi-tasker’s dream, helping you to chop, blitz, blend, and yes—even knead dough—with speed and precision. At their most basic, a food processor…
Plant lovers are very special people: Not only do they have a knack for caring for living things, but they also understand the tranquility and satisfaction being a plant parent brings. Even if you’re not able to grow plants from seedlings to full-blown adults, watching one thrive at any age can be equally rewarding. When…
Bravo Packing Inc. of Carneys Point, NJ, is recalling all of its raw frozen pet food — ground beef and “Performance Dog” — after tests showed contamination with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. The FDA is urging consumers to take extra care if they have any of the recalled dog food in their homes because there…
The State of California has until April 2 to respond to a Petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the North American Meat Institute (NAMI). Attorneys for NAMI say enactment of California’s Proposition 12 demands the Supreme Court answer a question raised by the so-called Farm Animal Confinement Initiative. That…
The decline in testing referrals for certain diseases during the coronavirus pandemic was greatest for foodborne and waterborne infections, according to an analysis in Norway. The project compares the number of referrals for diagnostic testing of selected notifiable pathogens and the proportion that tested positive during six months of the COVID-19 pandemic — March to…
In a highly anticipated new interview, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, spoke to Oprah Winfrey about her family stepping away from their royal duties—and said that protecting her mental health was a huge factor in that choice. One of the biggest revelations that came out of the interview was that Markle had experienced depression and even…
More than 90 million coronavirus vaccine doses have now been administered in the U.S. So if you’re wondering what you can start to do after your COVID-19 vaccine, you are definitely not alone. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released new guidelines to help those who are fully vaccinated make…
If there was a long history of only prominent physicians being named secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, then the nomination of lawyer/politician Xavier Becerra might look like the administration has a weak candidate is in line as HHS boss, especially during a pandemic. But the fact is that among the 24 HHS…
Austria has verified hygiene and self-controls at sites handling and processing food of animal origin. The review published by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) looked at general and specific hygiene requirements at these high risk companies in 2019. A total of 1,501 samples were taken from 175 companies as part of…
Contributed Opinion By Joseph A. Levitt I will soon be retiring after 42-plus years, first 25 years at the Food and Drug Administration, and then 17 years in private practice, and I wanted to share the most important lesson I have learned from food companies facing food safety and compliance challenges. In one phrase, the lesson is: “I…
