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Apparently, a lot of voices want to be heard on regulating trans fat. Because of a larger-than-anticipated number of stakeholder requests for speaking time, the…

It just got a little easier to navigate the rules, regulations and red tape of the New York restaurant scene for the city’s diverse operators.…

The national dialogue to raise the minimum wage, boosted by legislation in more than a dozen states, continues in the United States. But the conversation…

While much of the country digs out of the snow, California is facing a severe drought, likely the worst and most prolonged period of dry…

Where does the U.S.’ uneaten food go? Every year the country’s 312.7 million people are disposing of approximately 80 billion lb. of food waste—that’s more…

Late-night comedians like to dig up and mock antiquated rules and laws that local governments never knew about. They, and everyone else, missed this one…

California lawmakers want to turn up the heat on thieves who steal restaurants’ used kitchen grease, a hot commodity in the biofuel industry. Assembly Bill…

The gloves are off, or they will be if a California legislator has his way. The state’s new law prohibiting bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods…

Last month’s fatal carbon-monoxide leak in a Long Island restaurant has prompted a push by city and state lawmakers to make carbon-monoxide detectors mandatory in…

At least one province in Canada looks likely to follow the path American chains already are treading. Ontario could become the first province in Canada…