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.

Five private labs confirmed they don't submit failing test results to the FDA if the importers tell them not to. The FDA in 2004 proposed that labs be required to submit all test results to the agency, but it never implemented the change.

A horse in Siskiyou County tested positive for West Nile Virus. On October 1st, the California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab reported that a horse in the Big Springs area tested positive for West Nile Virus.

In what is poised to become yet another test of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the release of an exhaustive safety report on children's cough medicines recommends a total ban for children under 6 years of age.

Clinical trials that enroll millions of patients in tests of experimental drugs and medical devices get scant government oversight, according to a watchdog report released Friday.Over a six-year period, the Food and Drug Administration inspected just one of every 100 trial sites

A food distributor's efficient testing results in a recall of tainted spinach before it can reach anyone's table. FreeRangeClub aim is to help the public to avoid toxic foods—as well as foods of questionable quality and/or low nutritional value and how to find and identify safe, nutritious and healthy foods from reliable sources.