URBANA — A program that provides nutrition, food safety, and budgeting education for more than a half-million Illinoisans in 97 counties between Oct. 1, 2007 and March 31, 2008 is among those whose future is in jeopardy due to the withholding of state funding for some programs under the direction of University of Illinois Extension.

Food Safety Week will be taking place this summer between 9-13 June, with a range of events being run across the UK in schools, community groups and local councils, to highlight the importance of food safety and hygiene in the home.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co. must obtain an emergency permit before its products enter interstate commerce.

MALVERN, Pa. & STAFFORD, U.K.—-Sterilox Food Safety, a division of PuriCore , today announced that the Organic Materials Review Institute has placed the Sterilox Solution on the OMRI Products List.

DECATUR - Howard Lyman spent the weekend spreading the message of what he considers the dangers of meat and animal products.

As a result of a routine inspection of the Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Company manufacturing facilities by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA recently raised questions regarding recordkeeping and other issues at the pet food producer’s facilities.

Food safety experts are scrambling to obtain quantities of the toxins tutin and hyenanchin — implicated in the Easter honey poisonings — so that they can pin down their exact toxicity and possibly set regulatory limits.

WASHINGTON - When people say plastics are everywhere, they really mean everywhere: in the containers that hold your food; in the pipes that carry your water; in the bottles you use to feed your infant; in windows frames, shower curtains and raincoats; in eyeglasses and safety helmets; in phones or keyboards.

The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering the safety of a hormone-like chemical, bisphenol A, or BPA, commonly found in baby bottles and infant formula cans.

Approximately 51 percent of all Americans will benefit at some point in their lives from the federal food stamp program. Every state in the US, including Kansas, offers food stamps as a safety net for food security in times of personal economic stress. Food stamps are a kind of “insurance policy” for food security. A case in point— if a single parent loses her job or has a minimum wage job, food …