Menu Foods, North America's biggest maker of wet pet foods and the company that launched the pet food recall, is phasing out ingredients from China. Menu, which makes pet foods for dozens of brands, recalled hundreds of products in mid-March after reports of kidney failure in pets. The recall has increased concerns over the safety of imported foods, especially from China, and food companies of all kinds have or are evaluating their global sourcing procedures. Human food makers are also...

Beekeepers say their industrious workers have been vanishing mysteriously from their hives since last fall -- leaving behind well-stocked food stores, their developing offspring and a forlorn queen and her attendants. Bees are also vital to forage crops - the alfalfa, clover and other pasture grasses that grazing animals require. Pollination fees are already increasing sharply because of rising demand, and significant bee losses could reduce crop yields and increase food prices. Bigger...

Some pet owners have chosen to file lawsuits, including alleged class actions, and they have every right to proceed as they and their lawyers see fit. Tests began after it was discovered that the two commercial farms, which produce fish for human consumption, received vegetable protein concentrate contaminated with melamine. According to the announcement posted at their website, the company says it will address any reasonable expense incurred by pet owners that we can identify as being...

I took him off all dog food and fed him a combination of beef, chicken, lamb, rice and mixed vegetables. Ironically, when cats and dogs succumb to various illnesses that are, in part, diet-related, they are generally put on expensive manufactured prescription diets, adding to the pet-food industry's profits. Ingredients unfit for human consumption are what fill most commercial formulations of pet foods. FOX: When my first dog was 16, his coat changed and he developed trouble with his hind legs.

No link has been found, but researchers at the Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine are testing commercial bee feed for melamine-related compounds and doing feed tests on honeybees. No link has been found, but researchers at the Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine are testing commercial bee feed for melamine-related...