Food safety
A sign advertising pizza is posted outside a home in Scottsdale, Ariz. on April 3, 2021. Beaten down by the pandemic, some laid-off or idle restaurant workers have pivoted to dishing out food from home. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Pandemic-weary chefs, cooks enjoy serving from home

By Terry Tang Apr. 08, 2021 09:07 AM EDT

Hungary first in EU to approve Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Jan. 29, 2021 10:45 AM EST
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s medicine and food safety regulator on Friday approved China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, making it the...

A young patient is carried by a man at the district government hospital in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh state, India, Monday, Dec.7, 2020. Health officials and experts are still baffled by a mysterious illness that has left over 500 people hospitalized and one person dead in this southern Indian state. (AP Photo)
'Nobody knows': Experts baffled by mystery illness in India

By Aniruddha Ghosal Dec. 08, 2020 06:15 AM EST

Beef products from New Zealand with a QR-code linked to its coronavirus test results are displayed at a supermarket in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. China has stirred controversy with claims it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China stepping up virus testing on imported food packaging

Nov. 25, 2020 05:22 AM EST

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, an Original Impossible Burger, left, and a Cali Burger, from Umami Burger, are shown in this photo in New York. American plant-based meat company Impossible Foods Inc. is awaiting regulatory approval to enter the China market, while rivals such as Beyond Meat have pushed forward with plans to set up production in China despite edgy relations between Beijing and Washington. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
China becoming battleground for plant-based meat makers

By Zen Soo Sep. 11, 2020 12:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2006, file photo, a car passes in front of a sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. The union representing workers at poultry processing plants sued the federal government on Tuesday, July, 28, 2020, to challenge a new rule that allows companies to increase line speeds through a waiver permitted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and local unions representing plants in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri joined with nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to file the lawsuit in federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)
Unions sue USDA over faster chicken plant production speeds

By David Pitt Jul. 28, 2020 01:42 PM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, May 23, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a face mask is reflected in a mirror as he waits inside his car to be tested for COVID-19 while volunteers take registration information in Annandale, Va. COVID-19 testing was available from Fairfax County at no cost and without a doctor's order. Hundreds of people had lined up in cars and on foot by 10 a.m. Officials planned on testing about 1,000 people from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Six takeaways of the KHN/AP public health investigation

By The Associated Press And Khn Jul. 01, 2020 12:01 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, workers leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind. Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants that were shuttered by the coronavirus have little enforcement muscle behind them, fueling anxiety that working conditions could put employees' lives at risk. Major meatpackers JBS, Smithfield and Tyson have said worker safety is their highest priority. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Meatpacking safety recommendations are largely unenforceable

By Amy Forliti May. 20, 2020 11:39 PM EDT

UN: Live animal markets shouldn't be closed despite virus

May. 08, 2020 08:07 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant...

Judge dismisses Missouri lawsuit over meat worker safety

By Jim Salter May. 06, 2020 03:02 PM EDT
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of employees at a rural Missouri meatpacking facility, ruling that oversight of how...

A Tyson Foods processing plant is seen during the coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Columbus Junction, Iowa. Tyson, Cargill and other major meat processing companies say they are adopting several measures: taking the temperature of everyone entering plants, adding clear plastic shields between work stations and erecting tents to allow workers to spread out more at lunch. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)
Stopping virus a huge challenge at crowded US meat plants

By Josh Funk Apr. 22, 2020 11:33 PM EDT