Take a look at the ingredients list of food products including Slim Jims, hot dogs and other inexpensive meat-based foods that don’t actually look like meat and you’re bound to encounter mechanically ...

Food safety fears changed the fate of mechanically separated beef in the United States, and the reason ties back to one of the meat industry's biggest scares.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is seeking comments on guidance covering Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM). New guidance was developed for food businesses following a series of court judgments on the ...

Gold cans of food, tomatoes, peppercorns, and a wood board on a dark surface - Tetiana Chernykova/Shutterstock When I was a child, I loved Vienna sausages. Whenever I saw a can in our pantry (which ...

Editor’s Note: Just ahead of the long Fourth of July weekend, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out with “Americana: The Hot Dog.” We are reposting it because you can never know ...

woman at grocery store holding and deciding between two packages of hot dogs - Sergeyryzhov/Getty Images Ah, the hot dog. It evokes fond memories of summertime cookouts, the start of baseball season, ...

Hot dogs get a bad rep — “cancer in a tube” and all that. But a good one, a real one, can hold its own next to a burger or even a steak. The problem is, most of what ends up in grocery carts isn’t ...