These pro tips from Southern chefs and the USDA will help you waste less and save more. If your grocery bill feels like it’s climbing quicker than a Taylor Swift song rising up the charts, know that ...

It feels like we haven't gone a week without some sort of enormous food recall coming from the Food and Drug Administration. And while the worst recalls in history are not limited to perishables, they ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 13.5 million American households have low or very low food security. That’s a lot of hungry families. At the same time, the USDA estimates ...

People have long wondered whether modern-day human corpses take longer to decompose due to the addition of preservatives in the food chain. The claim dates back to at least 1991, when an article was ...

We've already heard about so-called "microneedle patches" that are used for the painless and sustained release of medication through the skin. Now, MIT scientists have adapted the technology for the ...

(Nanowerk News) MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, that pierces through plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and ...

A food-safe gelatin microneedle sensor pierces sealed packaging and changes color as food spoils, offering consumers a ...

Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump ...

Food spoilage is both an economic issue and a health risk. Most current packaging serves only as a passive barrier to external factors, without providing any insight into the freshness or microbial ...