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 [...]

In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]

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 [...]

Crose had hoped the big lake might yield a fish. Or two.
She didn’t expect the expedition to end at Wal-Mart, where the family bought two 15-gallon coolers just to keep the piles of freshly carved fillets from rotting on the drive home to Des Moines.
“Oh, my goodness,” the 40-year-old mother of two says of the [...]