Published: February 09, 2026, 12:01 am The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. This post is for paying subscribers only...

The “one massive bill” approach, implemented every five years, has long shaped agriculture, food assistance, school lunches and rural development. Published: February 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from the food safety arena The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found itself in the news repeatedly this week. A report from the Government Accountability Office warned that...

Prime Food Processing LLC is recalling dried croaker fish because the product was not adequately eviscerated, as required by the Food and Drug Administration.  Fish that are not properly eviscerated may retain internal organs that can harbor harmful bacteria or toxins, posing a potential health risk to consumers. The recalled fish is sold in plastic...

Olympia Provisions of Portland, OR, is recalling 1,930 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) holiday kielbasa sausages that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The RTE holiday kielbasa was produced on Oct. 14, 2025. There is concern that consumers may have the product in their...

The same ostrich has been popping up in my Instagram feed over and over lately. It’s a taxidermied beast that holds court in what I initially thought was someone’s house in Europe: The bird I’ve been seeing in so many birthday social media stories, however, isn’t from an apartment in the Marais quarter of Paris;...

Public health officials in Idaho are investigating an outbreak of E. coli infections traced to unpasteurized, raw milk. As of Feb. 5, there were nine confirmed patients including two children, according to the Central Health District (CHD). The children have been hospitalized and have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which is a rare but serious...

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Post Holdings named Greg Pearson president and CEO of its consumer brands division, which includes the Honey Bunches of Oats and Fruity Pebbles owner’s cereal and pet food businesses.  Pearson, who starts in April, replaces...

I drive a Tesla. I bought it in 2022, when I knew a bit about CEO Elon Musk’s questionable character, but could never have foreseen his reprehensible antics in the years following. I wish I could sell the car, but I’m underwater on my loan by some $10,000 since its resale value cratered. I won’t...

As Super Bowl LX approaches on Feb. 8, fans are filling shopping carts in preparation for the New England Patriots – Seattle Seahawks rematch. But the thrill of the game shouldn’t sideline food safety. With pizza, buffalo wings, dips and other favorites sitting out for hours during watch parties, bacteria can multiply quickly in the...

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can’t write about everything...