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The New Country Doctor and the Clinical Diagnosis of the Farm

A new kind of professional There are missing professions that would integrate epidemiology, farming and ecology. These are professions that would deal not just with existing human pathogens on-farm and

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 5 Dec 2013

FDA's Proposed Produce Rule: A War on Farmers

The deadline for comments on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Produce Safety Rule is Nov. 15, 2013. This was probably supposed to be the easiest and most

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 13 Nov 2013

FDA's Proposed Produce Rules Consistently Ignore Microbial Ecology

An unnoticed side effect of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed Produce Rules will be the impact on the economics of large-scale animal production in the

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 23 Oct 2013

FDA Barely Considers Biological, Chemical and Radiological Inputs in Proposed Produce Rule

Violating the explicit language of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA), the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Proposed Produce Rule gives a complete pass to imported vegetables grown with

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 26 Sep 2013

FDA's Proposed Produce Rule is 'Food-Safety Theater'

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Proposed Produce Rule is a substantively defective product. It’s not a question of the difficulty and costs of compliance and enforcement

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 10 Sep 2013

Produce Farming on the Brink

Our process of framing and regulating produce food safety is upside down and backwards. Human pathogens constantly flow from urban environments and animal production into farm environments, contaminating water and

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 5 Mar 2012

An Outbreak Like Germany’s Could Happen Here

I am interested in how major foodborne outbreaks and their investigations are interpreted and analyzed: to prevent future outbreaks, minimize the harm from outbreaks that occur, and frame the debates

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 1 Mar 2012

Sizing Food Safety Regulations to Fit the Farm

Food safety issues and worries about food safety rose to a high level last year among farmers. The owner of one of the original small organic farms in my county

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 16 Feb 2012

A Parallel Clinical Pattern to O104:H4

The O104:H4 serotype has an unusual clinical pattern for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) pathogens, including bloody diarrhea in adults followed by a high conversion rate to adult hemolytic

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 5 Jul 2011

Notes, Observations on Europe's Epidemic

What are the lessons learned so far from the O104:H4 outbreak? German medical and public health authorities are burdened by the equivalent of more than 10 normal years worth

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 4 Jul 2011

Q&A: Dr. Robert Tauxe on the Outbreak in Germany

As of Tuesday, the toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany was 3,697 illnesses, 856 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and 40 deaths. Major

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 21 Jun 2011

O104:H4: A New Disease with Old Preventions

“I watched my friends get sick, just melt away, and die in hours.” A senior, returning to our college from Nepal in 1968, after participating in a 5 year program

By Daniel B. Cohen

/ 13 Jun 2011

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The New Country Doctor and the Clinical Diagnosis of the Farm

FDA's Proposed Produce Rule: A War on Farmers

FDA's Proposed Produce Rules Consistently Ignore Microbial Ecology

FDA Barely Considers Biological, Chemical and Radiological Inputs in Proposed Produce Rule

FDA's Proposed Produce Rule is 'Food-Safety Theater'

Produce Farming on the Brink

An Outbreak Like Germany’s Could Happen Here

Sizing Food Safety Regulations to Fit the Farm

A Parallel Clinical Pattern to O104:H4

Notes, Observations on Europe's Epidemic

Q&A: Dr. Robert Tauxe on the Outbreak in Germany

O104:H4: A New Disease with Old Preventions