Speaking during a webinar highlighting the role of scientific advice in protecting public health, Dr. Moez Sanaa, from the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the World Health Organization ...

White flour is the poster child for food processing, capturing most of what went wrong when we decided to transform foods from their natural state.

Food safety is a major global health problem. ... We believe that It needs to be addressed by making it more than just “someone’s job;” it needs to be everyone’s mission.

Federal agencies that influence or fund how Americans get health care face widespread changes under plans by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eliminate 10,000 jobs from the U.S ...

Even before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) eliminated 10,000 jobs on April 1, people who watched the agency closely were concerned about food safety. Under a Biden-era ...

Ms. Belluz is a contributing Opinion writer covering health, nutrition and chronic illness. The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S ...

Maintaining the safety of our food 07:51. The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials ...

Heirloom tomatoes imported from Canada, left, and avocados imported from Mexico in a Pittsburgh market last month. Inspections and testing of imported foods could be affected by the F.D.A. layoffs.

The most popular color additives are Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6, making up 90% of all the food dye used in the U.S., according to Healthline. Artificial food dye consumption has also increased ...

Food and diet have been emphasized in the current presidential administration, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prioritizing tackling obesity and working to ban certain ...