Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, before his departure from office, announced a new USDA requirement intended to improve the safety of raw meat and poultry products.
This hasn't been a particularly good year for many web-based business-to-business ventures, but at least one company is having a relatively easy - make that ec - time of it.
ABB, the global technology company, announced that it has acquired a minority interest in the Swedish software maker, Industrial & Financial Systems AB (IFS)
Penn State University, University Park, Penn., is considering developing an e-business program with unique applications to the food processing industry.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have mapped and sequenced the genome for Salmonella typhimurium, one of the leading agents of foodborne disease.