A panel of food safety professionals has discussed how best to use findings from research to improve food safety. Speaking during a webinar highlighting the role of scientific advice in protecting ...

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion in rates of obesity and a range of other chronic illnesses. “A facade of normalcy has ...

The nation's social safety net would face massive changes under a bill headed to President Donald Trump's desk. There would be a work requirement for many people to get or keep Medicaid ...

Dorcas Sunday is an expert in agricultural communications. She is a PhD student at the University of Florida in the United States, where she is researching communications that build public trust, ...

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.

Here is how the agencies targeted for cuts impact the health care Americans receive: What do RFK Jr's HHS cuts mean for the FDA? The Food and Drug Administration oversees prescription drug ...

Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

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 ...

Healthy food cost, access and knowledge In addition to looking at individual preferences when it comes to food choices, we asked about three influences on Americans’ ability to get healthy food: cost, ...

U.S. health agencies announced that the food industry will begin "phasing out" eight artificial food dyes in the coming years.

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.