More than 300,000 people are dead in Colombia and another 40,000 have been infected, the country’s health ministry said Tuesday.It blamed the virus on a widespread shortage of rice, potatoes, bread, milk, pasta, fish and meat in the country, the third worst on the continent.The country is a major supplier of rice to countries around the world.The U.N. has said […]

Colombian food shortages have reached critical mass, with thousands of people across the country needing food assistance.The country’s food security crisis has become so acute that it has become a major concern for international aid agencies, including the World Food Program, the United Nations and the European Union.The crisis has affected at least 15 million people, according to a report […]

In recent weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency has begun enforcing new rules requiring more stringent scrutiny of the nutritional content of food.The agency says that under its new guidelines, companies need to show a greater degree of transparency in what ingredients they use and how much of those ingredients are added to food.But food safety experts say those rules will […]