Getting tangled up in two different sets of regulations can be a headache — or even worse, a reason to choose one part of your business over another.
That can be the case if you’re
Continue Reading Food safety know-how can help save organic acreageA journalist by trade, Cookson Beecher spent 12 years working as an agriculture and environment reporter for Capital Press, a four-state newspaper that covers agricultural and forestry issues in the Pacific Northwest. Before working at Capital Press, she was the editor of a small-town newspaper, the Courier Times, in Skagit County, WA. She received her bachelors in political science from Hunter College in New York City, and before moving West, she worked for publishing companies in mid-town Manhattan. In the 1970s and '80s, she and her family lived in North Idaho, where they built a log home and lived a "pioneer life" without running water and electricity for almost 10 years. She currently lives in rural Skagit County, Washington.
Getting tangled up in two different sets of regulations can be a headache — or even worse, a reason to choose one part of your business over another.
That can be the case if you’re…
Continue Reading Food safety know-how can help save organic acreageEncouraging news about progress in the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is highlighted in a landmark report recently released by the World Organisation for Animal Health.
This comes at an especially good time with…
Continue Reading Preventing foodborne illnesses can help keep super bugs at bayIf self-driving cars can identify objects like other cars or traffic lights, why not use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify harmful bacteria in food.
Turns out that this is not such a far-fetched idea.
“People…
Continue Reading Does artificial intelligence open up promises for food safety?All meat? Or no meat? Or what about something in between? That would be “hybrid meat.” What in the world is that?
In this case, it would be made by mixing cultivated meat, often called…
Continue Reading What about hybrid meat? Food safety questions ariseA young hardworking couple, they were more than ready to take a vacation . . . especially after all the stress that COVID had put on their lives. Overseas travel beckoned.
They weren’t alone. According…
Continue Reading Don’t get bitten by ‘traveler’s bug’When a hardworking, but exhausted, New York City realtor spied a festive-looking plastic tray of cut-up fruit in a store’s deli section, she reached out, picked it up, and looked it over carefully. She remembered…
Continue Reading Commonsense tips for dealing with a foodborne illnessFood safety and clean water always make for a good marriage. That can be seen in a recent legal settlement involving two large dairies in Eastern Washington that were accused of contaminating the water and…
Continue Reading Food safety scores a win in recent water settlements“A taste of the future.”
That’s how cardiologist Uma Valeti, MD, CEO and founder of UPSIDE Foods (https://upsidefoods.com) describes the upshot of USDA’s approval this week to sell lab-grown chicken. The approval, the…
Continue Reading Food safety an important part of USDA’s approval of lab-grown chicken productsAs the popular children’s poem goes: “This little piggy went to market.”
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized letting gene-edited pigs enter the human food chain, that may be the case for…
Continue Reading New World ag on its way: FDA gives initial thumbs up to pork from gene-edited pigsFor Paula Gordon the question of why she has a garden smack dab in the middle of town, the answer is easy.
“I like growing things,” she says, as she stands in her front yard…
Continue Reading Timely tips for urban gardeners concerned about lead safety