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FILE - This Jan. 24, 2012, file photo shows a Caesar salad with romaine lettuce. Food regulators are urging Americans not to eat any romaine lettuce because of a new food poisoning outbreak. The FDA says it's investigating an E. coli outbreak that has sickened over two dozen people in several states. The FDA says it's working with officials in Canada, where officials are also warning against romaine lettuce. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead, File)

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Americans, Canadians Are Warned: Don’t Eat Romaine Lettuce

by Candice Choi Associated Press Food & Health WriterNovember 20, 2018

This Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 photo shows part of an ingredient label, which lists "artificial flavoring," on a packet of candy in New York. In November 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided to give companies two years to purge their products of the six ingredients, described only as “artificial flavors” on packages. The words “artificial flavor” or “natural flavor” refer to any of thousands of ingredients. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Banned Artificial Flavors Kept Quiet

by Candice Choi AP Food & Health WriterNovember 14, 2018

This 2013 photo provided by the Boyce Thompson Institute shows corn leaf aphids used in a study to modify crop plants through engineered viruses. In an opinion paper published Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, in the journal Science, the authors say the U.S. needs to provide greater justification for the peace-time purpose of its Insect Allies project to avoid being perceived as hostile to other countries. Other experts expressed ethical and security concerns with the research, which seeks to transmit protective traits to crops already growing in the field. (Meena Haribal/Boyce Thompson Institute via AP)

Scientists: Bug Project Could Be Seen as Weapon

by Candice Choi Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressOctober 4, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009, file photo, a shopper looks over the milk aisle at the Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, Vt. Soy and almond drinks don’t come from cows, so regulators may soon ask them to stop calling themselves “milk.” The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines “milk” as coming from the “milking of one or more healthy cows.” That would mark a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as “milk.” (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Soy “Milk” Makers May Need to Find Alternative Description

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterJuly 19, 2018

In this Monday, July 9, 2018 photo a "USDA Organic" label is printed on the label of a can of baked beans, in Walpole, Mass. The USDA Organic label generally signifies a product is made without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and that animals are raised according to certain standards. But disputes over the rules and reports of fraud may have some questioning whether the seal is worth the price. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Is the “organic” seal worth it, given disputes on standards?

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterJuly 14, 2018

In this Thursday, June 1, 2017, photo, Brandon Alba from Milwaukee, orders food at a self-service kiosk at a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago. The company that helped define fast food is making supersized efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape that has evolved around it. That includes expanding delivery, digital ordering kiosks in restaurants, and rolling out an app that saves precious seconds. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

McDonald’s Look to Regain Its Popularity With Menu Changes, Faster Ordering

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterJuly 23, 2017

In this Thursday, March 16, 2017, photo, bottles of Lifewtr and Smartwater are displayed in Philadelphia. As bottled water surges in popularity, Coke, Pepsi and other companies are using celebrity endorsements, stylish packaging and fancy filtration processes like “reverse osmosis” to sell people on expanding variations of what comes out of the tap. They’re also adding flourishes like bubbles, flavors or sweeteners that can blur the lines between what is water and what is soda. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Coke, Pepsi and Others Turn to Flavored Water as Soda Sales Decline

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterApril 2, 2017

In this March 16, 2017 photo, Albert Delarosa stocks shelves with Coca-Cola products at the IGA supermarket in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. Less than three months into Philadelphia's new tax on sweetened drinks, the stakes have escalated: Beverage makers say the measure is hurting sales so much they need to cut jobs, while city officials say the moves are a ploy to get the tax struck down. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Soda Tax Battle in Philly

by Candice Choi Associated Press, and Kristen De Groot Associated PressMarch 19, 2017

This Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo shows Yoplait Greek yogurt on display at a supermarket in Port Chester, N.Y. A lawsuit in 2012 said Yoplait Greek was misleadingly marketed because it contained an ingredient not listed in the federal standard of identity for yogurt. The suit was dismissed. General Mills notes that it has since made recipe changes and that Yoplait Greek no longer includes the ingredient that prompted the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Donald King)

Fake Food Battles Heat Up

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterMarch 12, 2017

This image provided by Vox Media shows a social media post featuring a bottle of Coca-Cola next to a bowl of chicken chili. Coca-Cola is trying to sell more of its flagship beverage by suggesting the cola can accompany a wide range of meals, rather than just the fast food and pizza with which it’s a mainstay. (Becky Hardin @thecookierookie/Vox Media/Vox Creative via AP)

by Candice Choi AP Food Industry WriterDecember 11, 2016