Eric Burkett

Eric S. Burkett is a San Francisco-based Kitchen manager, cook, and freelance writer. His work appears online in Delish on MSN.com, the Food Examiner in Examiner.com and Food Safety News. His work has been published in San Francisco Chronicle Magazin

Who Should Conduct Biotech Crop Assessments?

Are companies with a vested interest in the outcome of environmental assessment studies qualified to conduct those studies themselves? A pilot project announced by an agency at the United States

By Eric Burkett

/ 24 Apr 2011

RFID Knows Where a Product Is and What It's Doing

Pretend you’re an inspector for the Hawaiian Department of Agriculture and you’ve just arrived to examine several pallets full of produce — bagged spinach, for example. You know that

By Eric Burkett

/ 10 Apr 2011

SF Sets Nutritional Standards for Meals with Toys

Calling it a modest step with enormous implications, San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar urged the city’s other supervisors to place new restrictions on the use of toys to promote

By Eric Burkett

/ 3 Nov 2010

SF Fast Food Toy Ban Too Hot for Pre-Election Vote

San Francisco’s efforts to restrict the use of toys to promote fast food for children has been pushed back a couple of weeks. Why? Depends upon whom you talk

By Eric Burkett

/ 19 Oct 2010

California Food Handlers Must Get Safety Training

In a move industry insiders say could mark the beginning of a national trend, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed new legislation requiring nearly all of the more than one million food

By Eric Burkett

/ 28 Sep 2010

People Love Street Vendors, City Oversight Varies

It’s becoming an increasingly familiar sight in large cities around the country: specialty chefs selling artisan and exotic foods from mobile food carts and trucks on the cities’ streets.

By Eric Burkett

/ 26 Sep 2010

Egg Producers Implement New Salmonella Controls

New regulations for controlling the spread of a form of Salmonella, whose mode of transmission still isn’t entirely understood, kicked into effect last Friday. The new regulations, the FDA

By Eric Burkett

/ 12 Jul 2010

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

By Eric Burkett

/ 7 Jul 2010

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

By Eric Burkett

/ 6 Jul 2010

CSPI Threatens Suit over Happy Meal Toys

Do inexpensive plastic toys lure children–or their parents–into making unhealthy food choices? A leading consumer advocacy group believes they do and is threatening to sue fast food giant

By Eric Burkett

/ 23 Jun 2010

Summer Food Safety: Ice

Ice. While it’s found nearly everywhere from Mars to the coils of a restaurant’s refrigerator–that is, when it’s not working properly–ice really doesn’t come

By Eric Burkett

/ 17 Jun 2010

New Poultry Pathogen Reduction Standards Issued

While the country’s poultry producers wonder aloud whether they’re even necessary, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued new compliance guidelines to reduce the levels of

By Eric Burkett

/ 23 May 2010

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Eric Burkett

Who Should Conduct Biotech Crop Assessments?

RFID Knows Where a Product Is and What It's Doing

SF Sets Nutritional Standards for Meals with Toys

SF Fast Food Toy Ban Too Hot for Pre-Election Vote

California Food Handlers Must Get Safety Training

People Love Street Vendors, City Oversight Varies

Egg Producers Implement New Salmonella Controls

CSPI Threatens Suit over Happy Meal Toys

Summer Food Safety: Ice

New Poultry Pathogen Reduction Standards Issued