For the second legislative session in a row, Sen. Willie Preston, a Chicago Democrat, is pushing to ban several chemicals ...

As critics contend it is setting a dangerous precedent, legislation is advancing through the Illinois General Assembly that ...

For the second legislative session in a row, Sen. Willie Preston, D-Chicago, is pushing to ban several chemicals from Illinois food items.

When cows graze, microbes in their stomach break down their food and make methane. Cows then belch and fart that methane into the Earth’s atmosphere, through a process called enteric fermentation. The ...

In the release issued under this headline earlier today by Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX), there was an error in the condensed ...

Color signaling has long provided us with visual clues about what to eat and what not to eat. Food dressed in fuzzy black and blue mold? No, thank you. Red meat fading to dull brown? Merely a case of ...

South Korea food labels, Indonesia GM food hoaxes, China food safety concerns and more feature in this edition of Safety First.

The safety of a particular colorant in our food supply has been the subject of research for several years. You may have heard ...

Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned Red Dye No. 3, artificial food dyes are under increasing scrutiny.

The recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on red dye 3 marks a turning point, a reckoning long overdue, as ...