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Reese’s Halloween pumpkins return to store shelves unchanged after Hershey won lawsuit

Last year, Hershey prevailed in a lawsuit that claimed Reese’s featureless Halloween pumpkins were a consumer letdown. Starting this month, the spooky treats will return to store shelves, though without any changes to their smooth, oval shapes.  “We know what consumers love,” said Katie DeCapria, senior brand manager for Halloween at Hershey, in a press…

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Farm linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak hadn’t been inspected in 7 years as FDA lags on foreign inspection targets

The Food and Drug Administration conducted just under 1,000 foreign food safety inspections in 2025, and the farm in Mexico believed to be at the center of the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S. was not one of them.  A federal law enacted to prevent diseased and dirty food from reaching Americans’ plates requires the…

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The Pakistan the world keeps missing

International standards are often assumed to be a modern invention. They are not. Many predate the United Nations itself; the International Labour Organization (ILO), for instance, was established under the League of Nations and only later folded into the UN system. Countries have long used such standards to strengthen governance, build credibility, and integrate into…

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Why Taylor Farms is facing scrutiny over salmonella and cyclospora outbreaks

Taylor Farms, whose lettuce public health officials have identified as the source of this summer’s widespread cyclosporiasis outbreak, now faces another serious food safety issue. The Salinas, California, produce supplier recently recalled several food items made with jalapeños suspected of being contaminated with salmonella.  But Jennifer McEntire, founder of food safety consulting firm Food Safety Strategy,…

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