This is the current safe handling label example from USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service. While the Safe Handling Label has gone unchanged for 22 years, it’s been the subject of fairly ...

Four years ago, Thomas Gremillion of the Consumer Federation of America petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on behalf of the Safe Food Coalition. The petition sought an ...

Cold foods, such as salad, cranberry relish, deviled eggs and cold dips, must be kept below 40 degrees, and you can do so by serving them in trays or bowls nestled over ice.

As summer grilling season heats up, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is ...

The Department of Agriculture has unveiled labels with cooking and handling instructions that all raw meat and poultry will carry by the middle of October. The labels were introduced yesterday by ...