Hershey’s has taken low-grade chocolate to a new low.

The FDA approves the irradiation of spinach and lettuce.

The Gourmet holiday issue, overwhelmingly dominated by cookie recipes and gift guides, also contains an interestingly off-message piece titled “Your Ignorance, Their Bliss.”

There’s a new food-safety agreement between China and the United States, but no one knows if it’ll matter.

Is your chocolate really chocolate at all?

After September 1, most almonds sold on this continent will be doused in toxic motorcycle fuel. WTF, USDA?

. The whipped cream is excellent, needless to say. In a time when most places sell commerical “whipped topping” (which means it doesn’t pass the FDA's standards to be called “whipped cream”) home...

has created a web site where consumers can go to facilitate sending their comments in to the FDA: http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/ If the standards change it will not preclude anyone from continuing to adhere to the...

There isn’t an FDA standard for “sashimi grade” or “sushi grade” fish, unfortunately. The closest you can come is what they call the “parasite destruction guarantee”, which is...

her home, to work on her experiment. An article in Options reported that "her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion." Her summarized...

Baking business where they have been used for years (along with Silicone Mold Release for Metal Baking Pans) and these Mats have always been postcured in order to comply with the FDA standard.

From the link below (“Food Grade Plastic Containers For Brining”) What Is Food Grade Plastic? The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) requires that plastics used in food packaging be of greater purity than plastics...

Is that still really the case though, since my understanding is that most sushi has to have been frozen to comply with FDA standards?

I don’t know the particular product, but US FDA databases still stipulate that products with this herb family be “thujone-free” (I am quoting) which is no change from the longtime status. In that respect the...

type or maybe whether the liquid was boiling when the can was filled. 2) There is an US standard for a fluid oz, but I seem to remember somewhere that some drugs or food use an FDA nominal standard of 30 ml to the fluid oz rather...