The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created video recaps from each day of the USDA and NSF International-hosted 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta.
Here are the videos, which highlight speeches from Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Jerold Mande, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety; Michael Taylor, FDA
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As part of our ongoing outreach to the public and food safety experts, as well as public health and industry leaders, Food Safety News is sponsoring a booth at the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta this week.
The conference, co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
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Food Safety News was able to attend the Global Food Safety Policy Forum last week, and we thought our readers might find a Q & A from one of the expert panels from the import food safety discussion interesting.
Q: You throw out a very big number for what it
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Editor’s Note: “Jolley: Five Minutes With Bill Marler, Richard Raymond & The New Food Safety” originally appeared at CattleNetwork.com and is reprinted with permission from Chuck Jolley.
On September 29 Richard Raymond used his Meatingplace blog to talk about an important but unnoticed anniversary. It had been one
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Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) PFGE was developed in 1984 and has since become the gold standard for bacterial subtyping. PFGE is the primary subtyping method used by PulseNet, a network of public health laboratories that perform PFGE on foodborne disease organisms such as Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Shigella (11), Listeria
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