ST. LOUIS — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially opened a new, modernized Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory ...

NORMANDY — A new U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory is open, a little over two years after construction began. The ...

At the grand opening of the USDA’s newly modernized .....announced a comprehensive new plan to strengthen national food safety efforts. The ...

At the Tuesday opening of the USDA’s new Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory near St. Louis, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins launched ...

The Normandy facility will be one of three in the country where U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists test food samples ...

For more food safety information, call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at (888) 674-6854 or email MPHotline@usda.gov. Happy 4th of July!

As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

Consumer Reports called the USDA’s reversal a missed opportunity, and published a full breakdown of the move here. Without stronger safeguards in place, food safety experts say the best defense ...

Across the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, 98 of 167 food safety scientists have resigned, according to the letter. The ARS’s work includes detecting pathogens, preventing foodborne ...