Opinion
Colorado’s tax revenue from marijuana sales now exceeds $1 billion a year. The one billion dollar threshold was reached five years into the state’s marijuana business.
It was also a period when Colorado led
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Publisher’s Platform: So says the Court — FDA what are ‘high risk’ Foods?
Opinion
A federal judge in California has told the Food and Drug Administration, which is the nation’s leading food regulator, to stop dragging its feet on the long-awaited rules surrounding food recalls and outbreaks of
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Letter From The Editor: It’s Only a Matter of Time
Opinion
Crop reports and economic forecasts for agricultural commodities have long been the work products of USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and its National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
Those are the USDA research
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A day to remember all year
Editors note: Frank Yiannas, FDA deputy commissioner for food policy and response, posted this column on the agency’s website on June 7, 2019.
This first World Food Safety Day is a recognition that when it
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Letter from the Editor: Have Your Way With Jambalaya
Opinion
Spent the last eight days of May on a “road trip.” Did read Food Safety News every day along with a local newspaper like the Lexington Herald-Leader.
This weekend finds me digging out and
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Pack food safety in your picnic basket
Memorial Day kicks off the official start of summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to remind you to prevent foodborne illness before you light up that grill and pack up the cooler. Hot and
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Food safety tips for fairs, festivals could save you this summer
Editor’s note: With summer unofficially beginning with this holiday weekend, the number of festive events and trips to farmers markets begin to balloon. Most offer foods and drinks that can easily pose food safety threats,
Letter to the Editor: The Oath (Version 01)
Opinion
Editor’s note: Letters to the Editor can be submitted via the Contact Us link on our website.
Dear Editor,
When the Washington Post published a story, “Pork industry soon will have more power over
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Publisher’s Platform: The Hepatitis A broken record — Restaurant workers should be vaccinated
Opinion
Editor’s note: May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and today is Hepatitis Testing Day. For more information, click here to visit the CDC page.
I am sure the idiom, “you sound like a broken record,”
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Recipe for pathogen destruction: A little air, a little electricity, a flip of a switch
What if you could kill 99 percent of the potentially harmful bacteria on the surface of your fresh produce in one minute with just the flip of a switch? Consumers could have devices similar in
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Anatomy of a food recall: The background and the bottom line
Contributed
Editor’s note: This article was published by the Penn State Extension Service and is reprinted here with permission.
It seems we hear about food recalls more frequently. To understand what is happening let’s look
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