Prior to the tomato-linked salmonella outbreak, food-related illness and recalls that have affected Bay Staters in recent years include:
Beef shipped across the country, including to 112 Massachusetts schools, was recalled in February after the U.S. Department of Agriculture learned employees of Hallmark/Westland Meat in California were videotaped using a fork lift and electronic prod to [...]

More and more, people are choosing food that didn’t travel thousands of miles before landing on their dinner table. They see it as the path to more healthful food, a sound environment and a better life for farmers.
In 2007, the Oxford English Dictionary approved the term “locavore” and defined it as “a person who endeavors [...]

Geneticist Bill Anderson and colleagues in the ARS Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit in Tifton developed TifQuik, a bahiagrass with great potential as a forage grass in the Southeast. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) chief scientific research agency.
Released by the USDA and the University of Georgia (UGA), TifQuik provides faster germination [...]

If ever there were a piece of the Great Lakes you could call ruined, this is it - a shoreline poisoned for decades by raw sewage and manufacturing excrements such as cyanide, ammonia, oil and lead.
The wanton dumping from the mills, refineries and sewer pipes has been largely stanched, yet it remains a place forested [...]

In a special pediatric program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, recent patients have included a 100-pound 3-year-old girl and a 417-pound 15-year-old boy. Some children had to be weighed on a loading dock scale.
In a Milwaukee hospital in May, 285-pound Charles Hayes stooped to kiss his 248-pound wife, Jodi, 33, [...]