The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.

For many people, plastic is an indispensable part of their kitchen. It's highly versatile, interacting with foods and beverages as a storing and serving material. It's tempting to include it in an ...

A simple reminder and guide on how to properly degrease kitchen cabinets to remove buildup and restore a clean, fresh look. This easy cleaning tip helps maintain hygiene and keeps your kitchen ...

Grease and oils are a fact of life in the kitchen, and when the appliances start feeling grimy, it's hard to feel comfortable. It's no good trying to just rub them away with paper towels, because that ...

Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten carbide. By carefully controlling how tungsten carbide’s atoms are arranged ...

You may want to rethink how you store your berries. In our ongoing journey to find the best food storage solutions, we spoke to professional chefs about how they extend the freshness of their produce ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...

Starbucks recently touted their cold-beverage cups as “widely recyclable” — but new findings from an advocacy group indicate none of the ones they tracked ended up in a recycling facility. The ...

Federal authorities are examining whether Chinese companies deliberately restricted the world's production of storage containers for the shipping trade just before the COVID-19 pandemic began six ...

A new study in Nature Communications reports the development of an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multifunctional materials. Credit: Photo by Jorge ...