Growing consumer demand for ready-to-eat foods continues to result in the development of new, innovative products from Tyson Foods, Inc. It is also resulting in the discontinuation of an existing product line and the closing of one of the three plants Tyson operates in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Read on...

Democratic lawmakers on Thursday requested an independent government investigation into the safety of meat in the country's school lunch program following a recent finding that a California plant slaughtered and processed meat from unfit animals. Read on...

The FDA has requested a budget increase of $42.4m for food safety initiatives in the 2009 fiscal year, but food industry and consumer groups say this will still leave administration under resourced in this area. Read on...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Friday he wants to wait to see the results of an investigation into the nation's largest beef recall before making any policy changes, but he acknowledged that the debacle has delayed negotiations to ship U.S. beef to Japan and South Korea. Read on...

Following a year when the FDA's food program was characterized as "high risk" by the Government Accountability Office and cited by FDA's own Science Board as an agency that "does not have the capacity to ensure the safety of food for the nation," the Bush Administration's "food protection" initiative is little more than shadow boxing against unsafe imports. Read on...

California aims to protect its consumers from the possible unknown risks of consuming food from cloned animals and their offspring by proposing a bill requiring such products to display clear and prominent labels. Read on...