The center aisles at a grocery store may offer countless nutritional nightmares, but they generally don’t pose food-safety risks. The irony is inescapable: some of the most highly processed, nutritionally…
Category: Food Safety
Aloe vera, which comes from a succulent plant, is sold as a juice and is added to various other foods and supplements. It is also marketed in various skin care…
While most food is safe to eat, one out of six Americans will still get sick from eating contaminated food this year. Knowing how to safely shop for food at…
With so many options, the supermarket can be overwhelming, and making sure you are buying the freshest and safest food for you and your family is quite a task. Here…
The bug to worry about in deli meat, Listeria monocytogenes, may originally come from meat, but it can also live—and thrive—on plastic, on metal, and in water. And once it…
An outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg has sickened 278 people in 17 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among those sickened, 42% have required hospitalization—almost…
In September 2012, Consumer Reports magazine found “troubling” levels of inorganic arsenic in almost every rice-containing food it tested. Arsenic is found in a wide range of foods, including fruits…