Where was it grown? Being able to track products back to the farm or orchard is not the same as preventing contamination, but it would help narrow the scope of recalls and speed the discovery of food contamination sources, which now can take days or weeks. [News Source]

FDA, Illinois Renew Pact To Combat Mad-Cow Disease (CattleNetwork.com) CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has renewed a cooperative agreement with Illinois to provide federal funds for continued on-farm inspections for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad-cow disease, the state of Illinois said Friday in a press release. [News Source]