Reid Promises E. coli Survivor Action on S. 510
Linda Rivera, a Reno, Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past fifteen months, has been promised the Senate...
Victim Stories
An E. coli Patient's Will to Live, Part II
Part II in a II-part series on Linda Rivera's battle with E. coli O157:H7. Once a week, Jeanine Iyala loads her two kids into the car and makes the roughly...
Linda Rivera: An E. coli Patient's Will to Live
Part I in a II-part series on Linda Rivera's battle with E. coli O157:H7.It's one of those glorious, fogless summer days in San Francisco when the winds whisk the skies...
Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship Established
A $25,000 Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship has been established at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, MN with a donation from Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm.Smith, a...
Seattle Station Tracks Food Safety
KCTS 9, the public television station in the Seattle area, aired a short documentary last Friday on the history of food safety since the 1993 Jack in the Box E....
Study Builds Momentum for Food Safety Bill
New study estimates foodborne illness costs U.S. $152 billion annually, building momentum for FDA food safety reform bill as foodborne illness victims prepare to lobby SenateFoodborne illness is costing the...
'Second Chance' - An Important Book
Kip Moore is a big, square-jawed transplanted Kansas Jayhawker living with his family in Golden, Colorado. He's written a book titled: "Second Chance: The Story of a Father's Faith, a...
Illness and Activism, One Family's Story
In November of 2006, 85-year-old Mora Lou Marshall came to live with her son David, his wife Terri, and their son Colin. She had recently been treated for colon cancer...
Victim Profile: The Loss of John Powers
John Powers was eighty-seven years old when he consumed milk contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria), a bacterium that causes foodborne illness, several times over the 2007 Thanksgiving holiday. The husband,...
Dancer Paralyzed by E. coli Sues Cargill
Stephanie Smith, a twenty-two year old children's dance instructor left paralyzed from an E. coli-contaminated hamburger, filed suit yesterday against Cargill, the company that produced the meat.Stephanie, who was profiled...
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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...
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...
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