The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

An Australian survey has found many people think it was the last thing they ate that made them sick and consumers are still washing raw poultry at home, which is a dangerous practice. Results were released by the Food Safety…

The USDA has confirmed the country’s first case of New World screwworm — the parasitic fly poised to harm the Texas $15 billion cattle industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tested a sample from La Pryor in Zavala…

Unsafe food is responsible for about 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of illnesses and deaths show the burden is similar to that from…

Public health officials are investigating a deadly Listeria outbreak traced to requeson, a soft cheese similar to ricotta. The multi-state, multi-year outbreak began in 2023 and has sickened eight people across three states —…