A report made public by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday indicates that the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), whose product is responsible for the recent nation-wide salmonella scare, may have knowingly shipped tainted goods.

In the United States genetically modified soybeans and corn have become processed food mainstays, despite outspoken dissent from food safety advocates. Now those food safety advocates are concerned that GM meat, eggs, and milk could follow in the footsteps of transgenic crops, becoming a part of the U.S. diet before they have been shown to be safe for humans, animals, and the environment.

Much as with the pet food incident of 2007, when tainted products from China were killing our beloved companions, the peanut butter recall of 2009 has reached pet food.

Both Sen. Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd became ill and had to be rushed to the hospital by paramedics. They were both attending the Inaugural Luncheon in honor of President Barack Obama.

T. Piekutowski European Style Sausage, a St. Louis, Mo., firm, has announced a 750 pounds of sausage recall that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

A total pork-product recall from Ireland has been implemented after slaughterhouse tests confirmed high levels of a cancer-causing toxin in meat. The substance has come from contaminated feed and is a big blow to Ireland's domestic and export pig industry. Irish authorities say pork contaminated with dioxin may have been exported to as many as 25 countries, a day after the potentially cancer-causing substance was detected in slaughtered pigs.

The United States has opened a Food and Drug Administration office in Beijing, as the first step in an FDA strategy to try to improve food and drug safety standards around the world. The moves comes one week after the United States placed a temporary ban on dairy products imported from China, which is still recovering from a scandal involving tainted milk.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Our overuse of antibiotics has produced quite a few superbugs that cannot be killed by any but the most aggressive antibiotics, some of which have such severe side-effects that are nearly as bad as the microbes. But now there are reports that as much as 40% of our meat may be tainted with such a bug.

Chinese products that contain milk will be detained at the U.S. border unless tests show they are not contaminated, reports The New York Times.

An estimated 35.1 million Americans live in “food insecure” households, meaning that at some time during the previous year they were unable to obtain or were uncertain of having enough food to fulfill their basic needs. Consequently, many of those people seek aid from federal sources including the Food Stamp Program.

Microbiologists at Oregon State University have developed a new technology to detect illness-causing bacteria – an advance that could revolutionize the food industry, improving the actual protection to consumers while avoiding the costly waste and massive recalls of products that are suspected of bacterial contamination but are perfectly safe.