Fri, 05/04/2007 - 10:51 admin Currently No Way to Trace Poultry Contaminated by Feed -- Without Tracking, No Way of Knowing if Contaminated Chickens Were Sold to Consumers in Recent Months; Schumer to Reintroduce Bill that Creates Tracking System to Trace Meat and Poultry to Source in Case of Contamination or Outbreak of Disease. Fri, 05/04/2007 - 10:51 admin Currently No Way to Trace Poultry Contaminated by Feed -- Without Tracking, No Way of Knowing if Contaminated Chickens Were Sold to...

Industry experts say the reason for the surge is twofold: Farmers are looking to beat record-low milk prices with a boost from the organic seal, and they re looking to take advantage of the last chance to get certified before stricter rules take effect in June. Industry experts say the reason for the surge is twofold: Farmers are looking to beat record-low milk prices with a boost from the organic seal, and they re looking to take advantage of the last chance to get certified before...

By Field Maloney Posted Friday, March 17, 2006, at 1:34 PM ET A scene from Whole Foods groceryIt's hard to find fault with Whole Foods, the haute-crunchy supermarket chain that has made a fortune by transforming grocery shopping into a bright and shiny, progressive experience. By Field Maloney Posted Friday, March 17, 2006, at 1:34 PM ET A scene from Whole Foods groceryIt's hard to find fault with Whole Foods, the haute-crunchy supermarket chain that has made a fortune by transforming...

agencies found that even under the most extreme scenarios, the potential exposure from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed containing melamine "was about 2,500 times lower than the dose considered safe," said Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operation in USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, who also testified. There is no evidence linking human illness to certain Chinese food imports tainted with melamine or...

The report measures the average prices received by farmers for crops such as corn, soy beans and potatoes as well as livestock and poultry. Commodity traders will look to a government report on agriculture products Thursday to confirm whether prices of corn and other crops are continuing to rise as demand for ethanol increases. The elevated corn prices have driven up prices of other commodities as farmers dedicate fewer acres to crops like beans and grain. The USDA reported in April that...