'Traces of horse DNA' found in some Nestle products
Click to watch video Nestle is suspending deliveries of all its products that include beef from a German supplier because "traces of horse DNA" were found in the meat, the Swiss-based food giant said...
View ArticleTabasco CEO Paul McIlhenny dies at 68
Paul McIlhenny, the chairman and chief executive of the company that makes Tabasco sauce, has died. He was 68. McIlhenny Company, based in Avery Island, Louisiana, said he died Saturday. The cause of...
View ArticleMeal trays flung sky-high when plane hits turbulence
Images taken on a recent Singapore Airlines flight might suggest passengers had become unusually ferocious in their disdain for the onboard meal. But this was no "Bugsy Malone"-esque food-flinging...
View ArticleFruit-related hepatitis A outbreak spreads
A hepatitis A outbreak linked to a frozen fruit mix commonly used in smoothies has grown over the past week, from 34 to 87 reported cases, health officials said. The cases have been reported in eight...
View ArticleComfort food, uncomfortable topics
Good things happen when people gather together around a dinner table - and recent news has given us an awful lot to chew on. Race has been front and center in the headlines recently. Businesses...
View ArticleHot dog champs defend titles
Click to watch video Two competitive eating champions defended their title Thursday at New York's annual Independence Day hot dog eating competition. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut of San Jose, California,...
View ArticleFarm linked to lettuce outbreak stops U.S. shipments
A farm linked to the recent outbreak of cyclospora has stopped sending lettuce to the United States, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Taylor Farms de Mexico "voluntarily suspended...
View ArticleSticky situation – molasses spill kills fish in Honolulu
A massive molasses spill this week in Honolulu Harbor could lead to an increase in the number of sharks, barracuda and eels as well as bacteria in the area, the Hawaii Department of Health warned....
View ArticleYour broccoli salad may be tainted
Taylor Farms has recalled more than 5,000 pounds of broccoli salad kit products because of possible Listeria contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The kits were shipped to...
View ArticleWorld's best pizza made in ... Melbourne?
Australian pizza is now officially the best in the world. Well, sort of. Judges at last weekend's Campionato Mondiale Della Pizza (Pizza World Championship) held in Parma, Italy, awarded the world's...
View Article96,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer wieners recalled for mislabeling concerns
Kraft is recalling 96,000 pounds of hot dogs because packaging labels were incorrect, federal officials said Sunday. The Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners packages may have contained cheese dogs, officials...
View ArticleWhere's the tainted beef?
The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service on Wednesday named retailers in nine states that may have received tainted beef. Two days earlier, the FSIS announced that 1.8 million pounds of ground beef...
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