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Kraft Foods Group has announced a voluntary recall of nearly 7,700 cases of one of its signature products, Kraft American Singles Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product, after the company discovered that one of its suppliers had delivered an ingredient that had not been stored in accordance with crafts standards regarding temperature. According to the company’s press…

  While nearly everyone agrees that the current state of research into the health effects of living near a fracking site is still preliminary and more work needs to be done, the first round of research is very troubling, in that it seems to demonstrate a link between pregnant women living near an oil or gas…

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS),  along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  has spent the last several months investigating an outbreak of Cyclospora illness, and they have traced the illnesses to cilantro that  was imported from Puebla, Mexico. The agency’s report that…

  A new ruling announced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has led to new regulations, which will go into effect Sept. 8, to require that manufacturers of infant formula adhere to stricter standards than was previously the case. These new regulations will require companies to follow good manufacturing practices, including a test…

According to Harris County Sheriff’s investigators, a bad tire and perhaps some speeding appears to have resulted in a fatal accident overnight in Katy, Texas. Witnesses say the accident happened at around midnight, when a pickup truck that was traveling west on Morton Road at about 80 miles per hour blew its right front tire….

A very extensive report was recently released showing that any worker in Texas has a 12 percent  greater likelihood of dying on the job than the same worker doing the same job in any other state. However, if that worker is in the Texas construction industry, that worker has a 22 percent greater likelihood to be…

After consumers were burned by General Motors (GM), and their extremely long delay in recalling millions of cars because of defective safety switches, apparently the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has decided to be more aggressive with automakers when it comes to making sure they recall defective vehicles in a timely manner, as soon as…

Korean automaker Hyundai announced three voluntary recalls Friday, August 1, affecting nearly 420,000 of its cars and SUVs. The recalls are to repair suspension, brake and oil leak problems. The largest of the Hyundai recalls is for 225,000 Santa Fe SUVs from model years 2001 through 2006. The recall doesn’t cover every Santa Fe…

Because a Missouri chicken processor, VU Foods, LLC, produced some breaded chicken products without inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) asked  them to issue a voluntary recall. The company refused, claiming there was no reason to consider them dangerous to consumers, so the FSIS has made the decision…

A terrible Texas car-truck accident occurred last Wednesday evening, July 23, and took the life of an 18-year-old woman as she was on her way to Lufkin, where she was planning to stay with a cousin before beginning freshman orientation at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches Saturday morning. According to an accident report, the accident…