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Food safety

Heidi Vesterinen

Petri-dish grown meat, or cultured meat, or possibly clean meat, or in vitro meat is coming, whether you like it or not. There has been so much progress in the field, that it’s pretty clear these product will end up in our grocery stores eventually.

Jonathan Chapman

Agricultural workers affected by severe summer storms in Minnesota can use Minnesota Rural Finance Authority (RFA) loans to clean up farm operations, repair or replace farm structures, and replace seed, other crop inputs, feed, and livestock as well as to repair and restore farm real estate.

Heidi Vesterinen

I’m hoping you are feeling well today, after yesterday's Independence Day celebrations. However, If you are not -- it might not be just the liquids in yesterday's diet that are to blame. If USDA’s new research is to be believed, 9 out of 10 people sharing food with you on the 4th either didn’t wash their hands at all or washed them poorly.

Heidi Vesterinen

Did you know that releasing non native animals to the wild could cause massive animal die offs? According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, this is exactly what happened at Lake Byllesby this summer.

Jonathan Chapman

Hormel Food Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is recalling approximately 228,614 pounds of Spam because of possible contamination with metal.

Jonathan Chapman

Each spring and summer, wildlife biologists and volunteers with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources set out across the state to survey wildlife.

Does red meat increase the risk of cancer? How did colonizers influence American food systems? And what do scientists truly know about the food we eat?