WUDI COUNTY, China — The headquarters of Binzhou Futian Bio-Technology are sealed, and local residents say its production sites were quiet last week.

A Virginia food-security conference will go beyond the safety of spinach or peanut butter to examine relationships between consumers and producers, preserving local farmland and reducing the mileage of the food on your plate.

The toxic chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China, a manager of a feed company said, a process that boosts the feed’s sales value. The U.S. recall of 100 brands of pet food has been tied to wheat gluten contaminated by melamine.

As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein.

Central District Health Department will offer the four-hour Idaho Food Safety and Sanitation course from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at CDHD, 707 N. Armstrong Place, Boise.

In an attempt to reassure the public on food safety standards a joint statement has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that the latest food scare over contaminated animal feed has not affected the human food supply.

Who knows what kind of shit is adulterating our imported and domestic food supply? But whatever it is, it’s about to hit the fan. Months after dogs and cats started dropping dead of renal failure from melamine-tainted pet food, American consumers are beginning to learn how long and how wide this contaminant has also poisoned the human food supply. Last week, as California officials …

The headquarters of Binzhou Futian Bio-Technology are sealed, and local residents say its production sites were quiet last week.

Widespread use in animal feed of the nitrogen-rich chemical, an ingredient found in plastics and fertilizers, raises questions about the safety and regulation of Chinese food exports.

Widespread use in animal feed of the nitrogen-rich chemical, an ingredient found in plastics and fertilizers, raises questions about the safety and regulation of Chinese food exports.