Despite early January media reports of an E. coli outbreak in Canada and the U.S. possibly linked to romaine lettuce, food safety news was not all bad.
The produce industry's developing track and trace system will play a key role in helping identify the source of the current E. coli outbreak associated with romaine lettuce.
Open the Urban Dictionary to the phrase ‘shoot yourself in the foot,’ and you’ll see a food package labeled ‘No GMOs!’ Fortunately, that disaster might be on the verge of a real reversal.
The fruit of the tropical cashew tree is used in a variety of vegan menu items, which presents a problem vegans choose to ignore - rainforests are destroyed to cultivate cashew trees.