Becky Bracken
Becky is a self-confessed food freak, news junkie, policy nerd and ravenous gossip hound and covers food safety and public policy for Foodista.com. Becky is a media veteran with a food specialty and has written for radio, television, print and online media. Recently, she launched her own food, news and celebrity site, FoodieGaga.com.
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May 9, 2011
States like California and Arizona have introduced regulations that set basic nutritional standards for meals that are sold with toys. Those regulations are referred to as "Happy Meal" ordinances....
May 9, 2011
About 4 percent of Americans suffer from a food allergy. And between emergency room and doctor visits and lost wages, food allergies cost the U.S. economy half a billion dollars each year, a new...
May 9, 2011
Jamie Oliver and other childhood nutrition advocates have recently turned their attention to sounding the alarm against chocolate milk in schools. And the Los Angeles Unified School District will...
May 6, 2011
Food service companies like Aramark, Sodexo and Compass Group are required by the USDA to operate as a non-profit. But questions have been raised about how willing companies like these have been to...
May 6, 2011
Just a short week ago the world watched The Dutchess of Cambridge march down the aisle into history. This week, we get to see Kate Middleton, a fresh-faced 29-year-old on her first grocery shopping...
May 6, 2011
Butterfield Foods in Noblesville, Ind., recalled about 285,100 pounds of barbecue beef, pork and chicken because they contain soy, a known allergen, which is included on the label. The recalled...
May 5, 2011
If you have a history of food allergies in the family, soon your doctor might recommend starting your baby on solid foods or cows milk before the age of four months. A new study found that babies...
May 5, 2011
Taylor Farms Pacific, in Tracy, Calif., is recalling about 22,000 pounds of ready-to-eat fresh salad products that contain meat and poultry because the grape tomatoes used in these products may be...
May 5, 2011
With a backdrop of widely-publicized food contamination scares popping up almost daily across the globe, the FDA has instituted new rules that give the agency sweeping new authority over state food-...
May 5, 2011
Not only was 47 percent of the meat tested by researchers contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, or staph, but more than half of the bacteria was antibiotic resistant. Which if passed on to humans...
May 4, 2011
Shake on! Sprinkle salt on fries, veggies, rim your margarita with it and just go crazy. Reuters is reporting a new study finds eating salt doesn't increase your risk for high blood pressure or...
May 4, 2011
Everyone pays lip service to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Who could argue with spreading the word about healthier food? But when it comes down to the hard numbers, spray tans and sparkles beats...
May 4, 2011
More Americans than ever are relying on food stamps to feed their families. In fact, the Wall Street Journal says 14 percent of Americans receive food stamps. The International Business Times has...
May 4, 2011
Smithfield Packing Company of Clinton, NC and Tar Heel, NC is recalling about 216,238 pounds of Portobello Mushroom flavored pork loins because some of the product may contain an undeclared allergen...
May 3, 2011
The tough economy has really put a strain on local food banks. They've never needed donations more. But go ahead and skip the can of bamboo shoots you bought for your "Wok into Y2K" New Year's Eve...
May 3, 2011
Thanks to Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign people are more aware than ever that access to healthy foods is critical for a community's health. Poverty-stricken areas and neighborhoods without...
May 3, 2011
Food prices are soaring and philanthropy heavy hitters including Bill Gates, the Walton Family and the Ford and Kellogg foundations are combining efforts to find ways to bring down prices. >>5...
May 3, 2011
Better Batter baking mixes have been voluntarily recalled by the The Raymond-Hadley Corporation because, although it's not listed as part of the ingredients, the mixes may contain milk, a known...
May 2, 2011
For all of our organic farming, sustainable eating and bans on Styrofoam containers in restaurants, the U.S. Food industry is as energy efficient as an open refrigerator on a hot summer day. The USA...
May 2, 2011
Ten years ago, no one had heard of tilapia. Now American's can't get enough of this fish that's been around since Biblical times. Tilapia got the nickname "aquatic chicken" because they're plentiful...
May 2, 2011
Mercedes Zambrano and her family were like the "Partridge Family" of the South American gatherings at the Kensington Bowling Club in Australia, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. So when the...
May 2, 2011
Thieves have figured out that if you're sucker enough to pay $4 for a cup of coffee, you're probably easy pickings. Starbucks has become the new place to be for any up-and-coming thief to ply his or...
April 29, 2011
Who says chefs aren't funny? Details.com has a pretty hilarious interview with chef David Chang about the top-five most annoying things customers do. The whole list is pretty great. He, ahem, tears...
April 29, 2011
This article will rock your dinner plate. For all of the Big Ag assurances that genetically modified crops are safe to eat, the pigs and squirrels are here to tell us something different. A farmer...
April 29, 2011
We've all had food poisoning. It's really awful. And a recent study from the University of Florida revealed that the economy takes a major $18 billion hit every year due to food-borne illness. But...
