BEIJING -- China, the world's largest rice producer and consumer, has approved genetically-modified rice as safe, paving the way for large-scale production in 2 to 3 years, Chinese scientists said on Friday.

Monsanto has released replicated demonstration trial results from a trial site based at Wallendbeen, NSW. The trial ran during the 2009 canola season and was focused on comparing the leading Roundup Ready, triazine tolerant and Clearfield ® canola varieties.

When naïve me and my students started out to improve the microbial safety of Ontario greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers back in 1997, the former of which still dominate the Manhattan (Kansas) marketplace, we thought, OK, we’ll make a food safety manual.

For a penny a pound, producers of ground beef could greatly reduce the danger of E. coli contamination, especially the lethal strain of the bacteria that recently took the life of a New Hampshire victim and in 2007 left a 22-year-old dance teacher in Minnesota paralyzed below the waist.

On Wednesday, President Obama pardoned his first Thanksgiving turkey. There is something wrong with this concept. Here is how our beloved national tradition works: One lucky turkey gets to live — and fly first class to Disneyland, where he is grand marshal in the Thanksgiving Day parade (I am not making this up). While another nameless bird gets slaughtered in his place.

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http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2009/11/articles/food-safety-communication/fish-freezer-containing-corpse-in-ireland-passed-20-inspections/ Health inspectors and Department of Marine officials carried out up to 20 routine inspections of a large fish shop freezer but failed to notice a man’s body hidden there for five years.

Abu Dhabi -- The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) is asking for the cooperation of residents to ensure food safety during Eid and throughout the extended holidays. Some food establishments tend to violate food safety regulations on such busy occasions, especially while transporting food items, a senior official told Gulf News.

Research biologists may have found a protein on the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus that chickens' immune systems can be better trained to attack.