Roberto Ferdman

A lawyer specializing in food-borne illness says Chipotle's E. coli woes were less an anomaly specific to the chain and more a symptom of the American food system, which isn't as safe as it should be.

Americans, suddenly finding themselves with fatter wallets, are paying to buy coffee prepared by other people again.

A new strain of disease is threatening the existence of world's top banana export, representing 99 percent of the market, along with a number of banana varieties produced and eaten locally around the world.

Two years ago, a 280-pound teacher in Iowa decided that he would eat only food from McDonald's for six months. But unlike in the infamous documentary "Super Size Me," the goal wasn't to see how much weight he would gain. It was to see how much he could lose.

Between 2009 and 2013, as much as 47 percent of all edible seafood in the US went to waste, according to a new study. And the majority of that is thanks to families and businesses that buy fresh and frozen fish but never end up eating it or selling it.

The good news is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to make the Nutrition Facts label on many packaged foods significantly more honest. The bad news is that this well-intentioned fix could seriously backfire.