Utah-based Nestlé Prepared Foods Co. is recalling three types of Lean Cuisine frozen chicken meals that may contain small bits of hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. ...more

November 18, 2008

CHICAGO - A Chicago-based company has recalled an "undetermined amount of beef products" distributed in 11 states, including Florida, due to an E. coli scare, federal officials announced Saturday. ...more

May 18, 2008

A Queens food company is recalling about 286,000 pounds of fresh and frozen beef, pork and poultry products that may be contaminated with the bacteria listeria, a federal agency said Saturday. ...more

May 4, 2008

More than a third of the 143 million pounds of California beef recalled last week went to school lunch programs, with at least 20 million pounds consumed, officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. ...more

February 22, 2008

Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-staffed that they find themselves peering down from catwalks at hundreds of animals at once, looking for such telltale signs as droopy ears, a stumbling gait and facial paralysis. ...more

February 22, 2008

ConAgra Foods voluntarily stopped production Tuesday at the Missouri plant that makes its Banquet potpies after health officials said the pies may be linked to 139 cases of salmonella in 30 states. ...more

October 10, 2007