Accomplished personal injury lawyer, Food Safety News founder and publisher, and internationally recognized food safety expert. Bill's advocacy work has led to testimony before Congress and his blog reaches 1M+ readers annually.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On January 13, 1993, the Washington Department of Health (WDOH) was notified that a cluster of children suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) secondary to E. coli infection was being treated
