food contamination
The Australian Strawberry Needle Bandit Has Been Arrested
Authorities have apprehended a former strawberry farm worker who was inserting needles into fruit for the last two months.
It's Not Allowed in Baby Bottles, But BPA Is Probably Lining Your Canned Foods
There hasn't been a food-borne illness case from the failure of metal packaging in over 35 years thanks to the chemical, says an industry representative.
China's Terrifying Food Safety Track Record Is Creating Savvier Shoppers
You won’t need to be in China long before you see something in a restaurant that makes you recoil. With the country's history of glow-in-the-dark pork and gutter oil, however, Chinese consumers are turning to imported food, which they regard as...
Lebanon’s Food Safety Scandal Won't Go Away
The richly varied cuisine of Lebanon offers a seemingly endless parade of delights. Unfortunately, in cities from Beirut to Tripoli, such dishes often come with a totally unwanted side of gut-roiling food poisoning.
Scientists Think Home Cooks Don't Know How to Wash Their Hands
Most home and restaurant cooks are cross-contaminating food like crazy. And it's all because no one knows how to wash their hands.
Fukushima Foods Are Now Safe to Eat
Nearly four years after Fukushima's catastrophic nuclear disaster, Japanese officials are reporting that foods produced in the country’s north-central prefecture are all but radiation-free.
Best Of 2014: A Year of Fucked-Up Food News
This year, we learned that many of our favorite things to eat—fish, oysters, chicken, bananas, and shrimp, among other delicacies—are contaminated, disease-stricken, or dying off It was a bleak year for food news.
Most UK Chicken Is Contaminated and Shoppers Are Pissed
Eight out of ten fresh chickens purchased at UK supermarkets were infected with the food poisoning bug campylobacter. And the British government seems reluctant to do anything about it.
What's in Your Meat? Random Other Meat
Half of meat products tested by a British local council contained other species.