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.
It is long past time to pass S. 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, with the amendment from senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) folded in–at least
AOL and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrew Schneider wrote a series of pieces this week about non-E. coli O157s and the effort to declare them adulterants–yet another of my
I spent most of last week in the “other Washington.” It all does make you wonder, as one Congressman quipped some time ago: “Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got
The Senate needs to pass the Linda Rivera Act.
Linda Rivera (Senator Harry Reid’s Nevada constituent) ate premade cookie dough that was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. She
Food Safety News to provide $25,000 scholarship for consumer advocacy.
In less than two weeks (on Sept. 14), the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, headed by
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–
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
S. 510 – FDA Food Safety Modernization Act – The Small Farms and Businesses Assistance Act
In early 2007, just after the first large-scale peanut butter Salmonella outbreak, I was meeting with
I received this email this weekend in response to an interview I gave recently about raw milk to “Food Manufacturing” online:
Farm fresh? All the rage? natural food craze? certified
Has the nail been driven into the coffin of the conventional wisdom that grass-fed beef is safer than grain-fed beef?
In 2008 I posted “Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the
