Making School Food Healthier
Some kids have already started attending classes, and most will be back in school after Labor Day. Many parents may justifiably be wondering about recent efforts to improve the quality...
Opinion & Contributed Articles
Publisher's Platform: Magic Wand
What if I had a food safety magic wand?The other morning when I was prepping in another studio to talk with another cable channel about yet another food crisis--this time...
Food Colors: A Spectrum of Thoughts
When I think of food colors, I instantly think of baking cookies with my mom and sisters during the holidays as a kid. My sisters and I would always get...
Finding STECs in an Emotional Hay Stack
I am a fan of the meat industry's efforts to identify and eliminate sources of foodborne illness. The work done to end the scourge of E. coli O157:H7 alone has...
Publisher's Platform
The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco.As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, "The...
On Bears and Food Security Part V: The Solution
The solution:"Lasting success requires both HUMANS and BEARS to change their behaviors otherwise bears will continually get into trouble." --Southwest Alberta Bear Management ProgramI began this series because of a...
Antibiotics, HUS, and Gastroenteritis
The issue of whether antibiotics used to treat Shiga toxin-producing E. coli increase the risk of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) has been a vexing one. But beyond E. coli,...
Why Public Health Matters
I received a couple of requests to define "public health" last week from readers [of Food Politics] Anthro and MA. As MA puts it,"Maybe...we need a definition of "public health." ...
Manipulating Mankind
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." -- Mark TwainIf only Mark Twain were alive today,...
Wedding Bell Blues
No one wants the 'Wedding Bell Blues.' [1]My son is getting married in mid-August, and the related preparations are starting to pick up a sense of greater urgency. I have...
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