Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from person to person as well as serve as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning. In developed countries there are intricate standards for food preparation, whereas in lesser developed countries the main issue is simply the availability of adequate safe water, which is usually a critical item.

The decision removes the last U.S. regulatory hurdle to marketing products from cloned cows, pigs and goats, and puts the FDA in concert with recent safety assessments from European food regulators and several other nations.

Genetically modified (GM) foods are inherently unsafe, and current safety assessments are not competent to protect us from or even identify most dangers. Overwhelming evidence to support this conclusion is now compiled in the book Genetic Roulette.

Neurochem Inc. (NASDAQ: NRMX; TSX: NRM) announces today top-line results from the North American Phase III clinical trial designed to assess the safety, efficacy and disease modification effect of tramiprosate (ALZHEMED(TM)) for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Following a recent meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an

Developing a methodology for assessing the risk of nanoparticles and the meat of cloned animals are part of the ongoing work of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the organisation's head told EU parliamentarians this week.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to the International Trade Commission (ITC) asking it to investigate the effects of food safety measures on U.S. beef trade with major trading partners.