food products

Japan tried to reassure foreign diplomats Wednesday about safety at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant amid concerns about massive amounts of treated but radioactive water stored in tanks. Diplomats from 22 countries and regions attended a briefing at the Foreign Ministry, where Japanese officials stressed the importance of combating rumors about safety at the plant, which was decimated by a...

U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north. China, a huge and growing customer for lobster, placed heavy tariffs on U.S. lobsters — and many other food products — in July 2018 amid rising trade hostilities between the Chinese and the Trump administration. Meanwhile, business is...

China upped the ante Monday in the ongoing tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s top economies. Beijing said it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods on June 1 in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision last week to hike duties on Chinese goods. This includes raising tariffs on more than 5,000 U.S. products to as high as...

Kingston Pharma is recalling bottles of children’s cough syrup sold at Dollar General stores nationwide over concerns that the medicine could make babies sick. The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that the Massena, New York-based company is recalling 2-fluid ounce bottles of DG health NATURALS baby Cough Syrup + Mucus because it could possibly be contaminated with Bacillus cereus...

Food pantries in eastern Iowa and western Illinois are being flooded with milk donations under a federal program to buy and distribute nearly $50 million in dairy products to compensate farmers hurt by trade tariffs. River Bend Foodbank CEO Mike Miller told the Quad-City Times that about 80,000 half-gallons of milk will be distributed to food pantries across the Quad-City...

Wayne Farms, LLC, is recalling about 438,960 pounds of chicken products over concerns that it may possibly be contaminated with metal pieces. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the recall last week after the Georgia-based company reported receiving a customer complaint on July 27 of a foreign material in one of their food products. After investigating the...

The U.S. opposed a World Health Assembly resolution to encourage breastfeeding because it called for limits on the promotion of infant formula, not because of objections to breastfeeding, President Donald Trump tweeted Monday. Trump criticized The New York Times for reporting that U.S. officials sought to remove language that urged governments to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, along with language...

Food thrown away after passing the date on the packaging contributes to billions of dollars of unnecessary waste because those confusing food labels are outdated themselves.

“Enjoy by,” “sell by,” “best flavor by”… Misunderstandings over labels often lead to food waste. New simplifications coming this summer may make things easier.

Finding the perfect gifts for the holidays doesn’t have to mean long lines, crowded shops and impossible parking lots.

A recall of food products containing celery potentially contaminated with the E.coli bacteria was expanded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday and now includes more than 155,000 items at several major grocery stores, NBC News reported. The scare began with contaminated celery found at Costco in late November. Stores carrying the potentially contaminated products, all of which...

A Metro employee was fatally struck by a CSX train near the Greenbelt station early Monday morning.

A pedestrian was fatally struck by a train in Beltsville, Maryland, Monday morning.

They hop. They crawl. They squirm. And they could be coming to a dinner plate near you. An increasing number of “entopreneurs” are launching businesses to feed a growing appetite for crickets, mealworms and other edible insects. These upstarts are trying to persuade more Americans to eat bugs, which can be produced with less land, food and water than other...