I did lots of food research while pregnant, and never heard of a prohibition on tofu. I wonder if it’s another contamination issue — some tofu is sold in bulk, floating in (highly germ-contaminated) water. I would...

Chinese citizens weigh in on how melamine-tainted milk is affecting their shopping habits.

The pet-food scare has been depressing, but it’s shed light on that industry. The recent news that people may have eaten melamine-laced food, though, is just plain freaky.

There’s no question that wild salmon tastes better and contains fewer contaminants than farmed.

The recent safety scares have many people wary of foods made in China—but cutting those out of your diet completely may be impossible.

The scare over tainted food products from China keeps getting, um, scarier. Is small-scale production the problem?

According to actual scientists, our favorite justification for picking up and eating dropped food may have some basis in reality.

If you are going to bread something right away(today), I would use them. But I wouldn’t store them and use them again, that raw chicken has contaminated them.

E. coli linked to Whole Foods beef; dead lizard found in Applebee’s salad.

"Was up all night with a terrible case of food poisoning" said the voice at the other end of the line. Knowing in advance what the reply would surely be, I nonetheless responded as I always do to such news: “Did you phone...

of the meal at the time of ordering. Prix fix menus are okay if there are lots of choices, and are not premade. Though we carry “chef cards” with translations into French, a chef with knowledge of food allergies is...

Both from what I’ve read and what I’ve experienced, most food poisoning is not from home-cooked food eaten at someone’s house. I used to stay with an elderly friend whose kitchen practices left a lot to be...

prepared foods that are usually prepared in the home microwave. Manufacturers are recommending that the items be heated NOT in a microwave but in a conventional oven and to a stated internal temperature to be tested using a...

There was once a posting about a Chinese food warehouse in Hicksville near the post office. I looked and looked but couldn’t find it. Can anyone help with name and address?

to a gluten intolerance (Celiac Disease) from the cross contamination in the oil. I feel soooo sick everytime I think about the rat droppings, etc in my food that really got me sick. Whenever I was there it was busy and quite a...