Every day, 27 million children sit down in school cafeterias to eat a plateful of government-supplied food. The meals consist of typical lunch fare - burgers, green beans, pizza, apples, lasagna.

You may have seen irradiated meat as a new choice in some supermarkets and restaurants along with claims that the meat is safer because the radiation kills bacteria that can cause food poisoning.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Wegmans Food Markets last week announced the rollout of its own private-label, irradiated, fresh ground beef. It's the first supermarket chain in the United States to introduce this ...

The government proposed Tuesday relaxing its rules on labeling of irradiated foods and suggested it may allow some products zapped with radiation to be called “pasteurized.” The Food and Drug ...

Concrete has shaped the modern world. Other than water, it is the most widely used material on the planet so it's unsurprising that scientists are constantly working to make it safer, stronger and ...

Since the time of Louis Pasteur, vaccines have worked on the principle that injecting dead or weakened pathogens into the body allows the immune system to learn to fight them. But vaccines from ...