There have been a few signs this week that state health departments are beginning to prepare for the still unlikely event of China’s expanding outbrea

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA has urged producers and backyard flock owners to practice biosecurity in the wake of the H7N9 avian influen

Three major cities in China have suspended trade in live poultry while the rest of the country remains on edge after 18 cases of H7N9 in humans have b

Ice cubes at Beijing-area KFC restaurants were found to have 900 colony-forming units of bacteria per millileter, which is well above China's national

China has banned imports of poultry and poultry products from the state of Arkansas after a low-pathogenic strain of avian influenza was found in the

Laboratory tests on Washington State’s exotic shellfish export, the geoduck clam, have found no evidence of unsafe or excessive levels of arsenic, fol

Researchers have found that domestic ducks seem to act as intermediate hosts for a variety of avian viruses because of their contact with migrating bi

A large number of fish imported from China and Vietnam and sold in U.S. supermarkets contain alarming levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.

The country's top health authority wants to scrap or combine more than 1,400 food standards over the next two years to streamline food safety rules, a

About 19.6 million people in China could be exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, thus increasing their risk for arsenic-related diseases su