Chuck Jolley is president of Jolley & Associates, a marketing and public relations firm that concentrates on the food industry. He's also president of the Meat Industry Hall of Fame, honoring the legendary figures of the business. He graduated from M
U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong made her annual presentation to the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on appropriations
You probably haven’t heard anything about this group of toxic chemicals for almost six years. Formed during combustion processes such as waste incineration, they’re known to increase the
I’ve been worrying over some of the provisions of this bill, especially since some of my friends in small production agriculture are so dead set against it. They believe
Meat&Poultry magazine reported “AIB International on Sept. 23 issued a statement saying that while it conducted its GMP inspection in three of six in-shell egg grading/sorting facilities
Michael Sansolo was the chief honcho at the Food Marketing Institute for a long time before he left and joined forces with Kevin Coupe and MorningNewsBeat. He writes a column
Shouldn’t we test for pathogens closer to where the public actually buys their meat and poultry?
In one of his periodic Meatingplace.com blogs (subscription required). Dr. Richard Raymond
Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning story published by the New York Times after she became severely ill with an E. coli infection from a contaminated hamburger, has
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says illnesses from E. coli O157:H7 fell to a five-year low in the U.S. last year. CDC attributed the improvement
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Part II: On traceability and recordkeeping, exemptions for small food facilities,
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
The contents of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act represent a