WASHINGTON — The latest national food safety investigation took on new urgency Friday as federal officials confirmed salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 ...

Suffolk firefighters responded to a fire at the Producers Peanut Company Friday morning. The fire at the plant, which makes peanut butter and other peanut products, has gone to three alarms. The fire ...

For many years, knowledgeable people have suggested that the various food safety functions of the federal and state governments should be consolidated under a single federal agency. Few, if any, had ...

It is 11am, and Francis Ochieng is busy putting branded stickers on peanut butter containers as he races against time to meet a customer order that came in late the previous night. The order also ...

WASHINGTON -- First it was bulk peanut butter shipped to nursing homes and institutional cafeterias. Now the salmonella case has touched the Kellogg Co., which has recalled 16 products as federal ...