Half of the warehouse's 85m lbs of frozen food was destroyed in the fire at the 500,000 sq ft insulated warehouse near downtown Los Angeles. The smell of rotting food is unbearable in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Two years ago, a Lineage warehouse in Finley, Washington also caught on fire and residents complained of significant health issues.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold a webinar on June 29, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) to provide technical assistance on the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants (BRAG) program. The program supports the generation of new information that will help federal regulatory agencies make science-based decisions about introducing genetically engineered organisms into the environment.

There are forever chemicals in beer. Microbreweries make up a quarter of the U.S. market and produce more than 15,000 barrels (460,000 gallons) of beer annually. The main ingredient in a beer recipe is malt. The EPA has established a maximum contaminant level for six PFAS in drinking water.

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FDA has updated its Nara Organics infant botulism outbreak page. The Nara formula lots fed to the three sick infants were made with milk supplied by Organic West Milk and spray-dried by Dairy Farmers of America, the same suppliers behind the ByHeart outbreak that stretched from December 2023 to November 2025. FDA has collected unopened samples from the implicated lots, with results expected “in the coming weeks. FDA inspected the two European firms behind Nara’s formula before the illnesses surfaced and cited deficiencies at both. Nara and DFA still won't name them.

After the glyphosate verdict, Bayer's share price rose by almost 20 percent. FAZ+ says there is still more good news for Bayer shares after the verdict.   Â ... . - Sebastian Balzter.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promotes eating beef every day, twice a day. Health Secretary rolled out the new food pyramid with a marbled rib eye in the pole position. Paleo diet is based on the idea that people should eat as their prehistoric ancestors did.

Beijing is rewriting its trade playbook to grant continent-wide market access for African coffee, chillies and cashews. Rwanda pioneered chilli exports to China in 2021 and Uganda followed earlier this year with an 11-tonne shipment to Shanghai. Ethiopia and Burundi have already secured access for their coffee bean exports. On July 20, Beijing will extend the same treatment to all African coffee beans.