Samantha Bonar

Regular readers of these pages know that there have been a lot of food recalls lately: Foster Farms chicken, of course, but also ground beef, hummus, dips and cottage cheese  - and that's just in the last two weeks. Makes you think you might only be safe eating water and crackers. Well ... you might want to......

Irwindale, you just dodged a flaming hot bullet that would have solidified your status as the lamest city in America. The Irwindale City Council has finally thrown out a nuisance lawsuit that shuttered the Sriracha plant within its city limits, allowing the hot-sauce manufacturer to remain open.  Huy Fong Foods,......

What's it going to take, Ron Foster? Another 50 people have suffered salmonella poisoning linked to Foster Farms chicken just since April, according to the Centers for Disease Control's latest report on the outbreak that started over a year ago. That's right - Foster Farms has been allowed to continue putting tainted chicken on the......

In what is turning out to be a banner week for bad food, nine tons of hummus and other dips sold at Trader Joe's and Target are being recalled for possible listeria contamination. (This follows on the heels of Wolverine Packing Co.'s recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef and Kraft Foods' pulling......

A recall of nearly 2 million pounds of ground beef due to a potentially deadly strain of E.coli has expanded to include distributors to retailers and restaurants nationwide. But unfortunately, federal officials won't tell us which ones. (Please, please not In-N-Out.) Food Safety and Inspection Service officials aren't required to say which......

Processed foods targeted to kids are just packed with artificial dyes that may cause or worsen ADD in some, according to a new study. Purdue University researchers say many children today "could be consuming far more dyes than previously thought." In the U.S., food and beverage companies disclose artificial coloring......

Some think McDonald's new Happy Meal mascot, Happy, would more aptly be named Creepy. He looks like a giant pair of dentures trapped in a red aluminum box with Muppet eyeballs halved by heavy lower lids on top, with two golden arches sitting above the eyes like bleached, severely over-Botoxed......

Kraft Foods is recalling 1.2 million cases of cottage cheese because of "out-of-standard storage temperatures," according to a statement released by the company  The recalled brands include Knudsen, Breakstone's, Simply Kraft and Daily Chef.  "Some ingredients used in these products were not stored in accordance with Kraft's temperature standards," the company......

A compound found in soy sauce may be more potent than the current top antiviral therapy in fighting HIV, University of Missouri researchers have found. Seventy times stronger, in fact.  The molecule was accidentally discovered by a Japanese soy sauce company in 2001 while trying to enhance the flavor of its......

Teens who drink a lot of sports and energy drinks engage in more "undesirable behaviors," according to a shocking new study. It's kind of a chicken-or-egg question, though: Does drinking Red Bull and Monster make adolescents act like punks, or are young douchebags-in-the-making the type who enjoy such beverages in......