Opinion
At the risk of beating this issue to death, I found yet another blog post I did several years ago on the issue of transparency in how public health deals with the public’s right
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Letter From The Editor: A warning notice about FDA and CDC
Opinion
Note: At this time, the credibility of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is not to be trusted. Both agencies have shown a reckless disregard
Publisher’s Platform: A bit more about the FDA and lack of Transparency
Opinion
The Halloween disclosure of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce raises another concern about the FDA and transparency — the failure to disclose where consumers purchased the tainted product. The FDA,
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Publisher’s Platform: It is not like I have not been preaching transparency for some time
Opinion
There has been yet another romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak. This time with 23 people infected from July 12 to Sept. 8 in a dozen states. Eleven people were hospitalized. However, the outbreak was
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Letter from the Editor: It was time to draw the line
Opinion
News involves various facts around certain events put into some context.
Food Safety News usually does not have a problem putting these factors together for our readers, but I am feeling we fell a
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Exploring the technology of food safety culture with FDA’s Yiannas
Opinion
Frank Yiannas, nearing completion of his first year as FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, opened the 2019 Food Safety Consortium Conference recently in Schaumburg, IL. This was his third time to
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There isn’t more Hepatitis A risk for restaurant workers; but they can spread it faster than others
Opinion
America’s food safety attorney Bill Marler, who by way of proper disclosure is also the publisher of Food Safety News, wants food handlers vaccinated for Hepatitis A.
Fact is Marler has been on
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Safe food requires transparency and accountability
Opinion
On a recent visit with some family, I became acquainted with NFL RedZone. For those of you not familiar with this television channel, it provides “whip-around coverage” of all the NFL games on a
FDA leaders say dashboard will help reveal course of food safety
Opinion
After a series of large-scale food safety problems almost a decade ago, Congress passed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA, to shift our food safety system from
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Beach Beat: What to remember from September
Opinion
I know September is almost over because Christmas merchandise is beginning to nudge its way into retail spaces. But just because Food Safety Education Month is nearing its end, it doesn’t mean the educating
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African swine fever’s lesson: Big animal ag is fragile and biohazard suits are not unusual
Opinion
Editor’s note: This column is published here with the permission of the author, Leah Garcés.
Over the past few months, news reports of China’s African swine fever problem, which is decimating the country’s
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