The voluntary recall, an expanded version of one issued Tuesday for nearly 332,000 pounds of Topps beef, was the first in the 67-year history of Topps, one of the nation's largest meat processing concerns. Geoffrey Livermore, Topps' vice president of operations, said the recalled products were distributed to retail grocers and food service institutions throughout the United States over the past year. Based on consumption patterns, he said, the company believes most of the products have...

By Meredith Brody Published: July 18, 2007 When tiny Tajine opened in the Tenderloin in 2005, people who managed to squeeze into its miniature space on a gritty block of Jones were delighted by both its delicious food and its amazingly gentle prices. Tajine's recent move to a much larger storefront on Polk, more than tripling its capacity, so excited us especially the prospect of being able to eat there in a large group, impossible in the old location that we invited an entire apartment...

He said it would be more helpful to have North Dakota driver's license exams written in Spanish or read to workers who may have the skills needed to drive but are not fully fluent in English. Lopez said he has a driver's license and a Highway Patrol trooper read the test questions to him. Lopez estimated that 80 percent of the migrant workers who come to work during the harvest leave before winter. He drives semi-trucks for area farmers. Many of them left even before the newspaper ad was...

Specifically, we improved the record-keeping for how we developed our cooking instructions and improved our testing for incoming ingredients per the USDA's request, Childs said. ConAgra has not identified the source of the salmonella in the pot pies, but company officials have said they are confident the pies will be safe because of the changes that were made. For both domestic and international suppliers, ConAgra Foods has put in place measures to ensure the safety of the ingredients that...

In the longer term, it may be possible to produce GM crops with omega3 acids that could be eaten directly, allowing vegetarians to benefit from the nutrients that are usually almost absent from their diets. Both acids, however, are produced only by algae and reach the human body through the fish that eat them, or from meat, milk or eggs from animals reared at least partly on fish meal. Two long-chain omega3 acids, EPA and DHA, are known to play important roles in health, protecting against...