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Subscribe to this author via RSSPublisher’s Platform: Cucumbers, Salmonella and Budget Cuts
Opinion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that a multi-state Salmonella outbreak was likely caused by the consumption of cucumbers imported from Mexico. The announcement came one day after USA Today reporter Liz Szabo reported that the FDA would be conducting 18 percent fewer food inspections this year due to a loss… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Food Safety News Press Award Winners – 5 Times
It is not the Pulitzer - yet!
Food Safety News writers, Cookson Beecher and James Andrews were at the Washington Press Association Awards luncheon today and scored big – taking home a total of five awards. Here’s what Cookson took home: First place — Agriculture/Environment — “Calls for GMO Labels Keep Cropping Up” First place — Business/Technology — “Breakthrough Offers Promise of… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: “Ready to Cook” Frozen Meals With E. coli Can Be Very, Very Dangerous
Opinion
The CDC is reporting a total of 27 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O121 (STEC O121) from 15 states. Of those ill, 81 percent are 21 years of age or younger and 35 percent have been hospitalized. Two ill people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a type of kidney… Continue Reading
Mayor Bloomberg: Don’t Ban Big Gulps, Order Hepatitis A Shots!
Opinion
Customers who ate desserts at Alta Restaurant located at 64th West and 10th Street in New York City’s West Village are lining up for preventative Hepatitis A vaccines today and for the next few days. Hopefully the vaccines do the trick and the thousands who were exposed to the hepatitis A virus do not get… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: McDonald’s and E. coli, 30 Years Later
Opinion
A few weeks ago I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1993. At one point I introduced an article I found in 1993 at… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Mike Taylor and the Myth of Monsanto’s Man
Opinion
I have known of Mike Taylor since shortly after September 29, 1994. As Food Safety News reported in “Looking Back: The Story Behind Banning E. Coli O157:H7,” Taylor took the podium that day in San Francisco at the American Meat Institute’s annual convention to make his first, and arguably most significant, speech as the top… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Editorial Independence
Opinion
Food Safety News is in its fourth year of publication. Like any growing organization, it has suffered a few bumps and bruises along the way—some of them resulting from the belief that because I underwrite the publication, our reporters are biased towards me or that Food Safety News lacks editorial independence. I beg to differ. … Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Perhaps No Need for Private A.G?
Opinion
This is somewhat of a reprint of an Op-ed of a few years ago. However, in light of this week’s 76-count indictment of Stewart Parnell and four others, I thought a reprint was in order. Everyone seems to hate government nowadays. From being afraid the FDA “food police” will try to steal your seeds, to… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Why isn’t Salmonella a Legal Adulterant?
Fact: Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne illness worldwide, with an estimated 1.4 million cases each year in the United States alone. This week, the CDC reported that 124 people in 12 states became ill with Salmonella and over 30 were hospitalized after being exposed to Foster Farms chicken between June of last year… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Salmonella’s Not an Adulterant?
Opinion
Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times several months ago, “I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant [in food].” Ignoring Salmonella in meat makes little, if any, sense. Even after the Court’s twisted opinion in Supreme Beef v. USDA, where it found Salmonella “not an adulterant per… Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Another E. coli Lesson Learned Hard
Opinion
In the fall of 1996, the very last of the Jack in the Box cases had resolved and the media attention surrounding the outbreak had faded away. For most of the summer and fall I juggled being a lawyer and campaign finance chair for what would become Gary Locke’s successful run to become the first… Continue Reading