The Chinese government has initiated wide-ranging reforms to its battered dairy industry to improve safety by overhauling everything from cow breeding to milk sales.

The National Development and Reform Commission said this major shake up is needed to restore consumer confidence in the country's dairy industry, after the melamine contaminated milk killed four infants and sickened over 54,000 babies, leading to the widest recall of Chinese milk and food products containing Chinese milk across the globe

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened one of its first three overseas offices in China on Wednesday as part of the two countries' cooperation in the field of food and drug regulation.

U.S. and Chinese officials inaugurated the FDA office in Beijing

Nestle Prepared Foods Co. (NPFC) is recalling nearly 900,000 pounds of Lean Cuisine frozen chicken meals after a consumer complained of biting a bit of hard plastic while eating the packed dinner.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday the recall of three brands of the frozen meal produced between Aug. 18 and Oct. 27 of this year. These are the 9.5-ounce packages of Lean Cuisine Pesto Chicken With Bow Tie Pasta, 10.5-ounce packages of Lean Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean and 12.5-ounce packages of Lean Cuisine Chicken Tuscan

A variety of factors are responsible for fluctuating food commodity prices that have driven grocery prices up and caused more people to struggle to feed themselves around the world, according to a new report from the Department of Agriculture.

Primarily, the factors were interrelated and included long-term supply and demand trends, recent higher energy prices, increased biofuel production, depreciation of the U.S. dollar, adverse weather, and the policy responses to domestic food price inflation by a number of countries

Food insecurity meant that 691,000 children went hungry in America during 2007, the Agriculture Department reports.

Some 36.2 million adults and children struggled to get enough to eat last year . These are people who didn't have the money or assistance to obtain sufficient food to maintain active, healthy lives