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

Last summer I asked Magen Kochly — who is the general manager of a Charlotte, North Carolina, Williams Sonoma store — for the most popular pantry organizer the retailer sells. The answer? The Hold ...

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 ...

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 ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Plastic bags with groceries sit in a cart Monday ...

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 ...