A large body of evidence reviewed by the World Health Organization found that processed meat consumption increases the risk of cancer. Seeki...

The new book Outbreak  by legal scholar Timothy Lytton ( University of Chicago Press ; Amazon ) is both well-written and insightful about ho...

The book Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction , whose second edition has just been released in the Earthscan Food and Agricultu...

In Biting the Hands that Feed Us  (Island Press, 2016), food lawyer Baylen Linnekin offers a libertarian appeal for reduced food regulations...

There appears to be a large literature using the same words to say that "nanotechnology" is an "enabling" technology tha...

A 2014 post in this blog noted that food safety problems are fundamentally about lack of public information. If consumers had magic sungl...

Here is a forlorn too-boring-to-notice list of quiet positions on recent Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) controversies. 1. I never say...

In this recent video interview with Food Safety News , legal scholar Timothy Lytton envisions a more constructive role for litigation in th...

New reports by the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggest that some food ingredients have b...

Frontline last night had an excellent report , the Trouble with Antibiotics, on the plausible link between dangerous antibiotic resistant di...

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) yesterday shared inspection documents for Foster Farms, the company at the center of a recent S...

After this year's Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, which has caused more than 300 illnesses and an unusually high rate of hospitalization...

Helena Bottemiller reported at the end of May for NBC News that the proposed purchase of Smithfield Foods by a Chinese company may be relat...

Albany Law School professor Timothy Lytton has a new book, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food .  A key point is that t...

The Consumer Federation of America's National Food Policy Conference is an always-fascinating annual tradition.  For 36 years, the Na...

A recent theme issue in Choices Magazine , a publication of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) , examined lean finely...

The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and the Government Accountability Project have spent a couple years asking the Food and Drug A...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been missing the implementation deadlines that Congress set in 2009 as part of the landmark FDA F...

Here is my paraphrase of the most important results from a study by Schoenfeld and Ioannidis in the current issue of the American Journal o...

USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) this week began posting more information than ever before about foreign food safety audits ...