Food Safety

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This is the second in a series of posts related to the Royal Society’s recently published issue “Food Security: Feeding the World in 2050,” which focuses on the drivers of change in the global food system and the challenges it faces to 2050. Indigenous species could play an important role in diversifying and expanding the [...]

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Food safety attorney Bill Marler today petitioned the court for entrance to an Iowa egg farm responsible for the massive egg recall and nationwide outbreak of Salmonella. A ‘Rule 34’ inspection – named for its position in the civil code – is a request for entry into a facility for purposes of [...]

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Charles Grassley has asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to address accusations that federal workers ignored complaints about conditions at an Iowa farm involved in a recall of salmonella-tainted eggs. Grassley sent a letter to Vilsack on Tuesday, asking whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture had received complaints and was what [...]

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