We need to talk about ballot initiatives. It a subject that does not come up much in the South and East, but state constitutions mostly in the West contain provisions
Several years ago I started following the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). It used to come weekly in the mail (perhaps it still does), but it is
Increasing oversight by regulatory agencies, third-party payers, and the public has intensified interest in the quality of health care services. Effective training that ensures consistent and predictable employee performance
The July 18 recallof chopped onions from one California farm has rippled through the food chain and triggered numerous other product recalls in the ensuing weeks due to fears the
A passenger traveling on an Air Canada flight this week discovered a sewing needle in the sandwich he was served en route from Victoria to Toronto. This isn’t the
Last year’s German E. coli outbreak made headlines around the world in May and June as it sickened nearly 3,800 people and killed 50, distinguishing it as the
Sentences were imposed recently for a felonious scheme carried out from 2008 to 2009 by a Pennsylvania trucking company that supplied condemned milk to a very clued-in New Jersey
Food safety concerns in the United Kingdom change slowly over time, but they do change. Twice a year, the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom fields an opinion survey
Consumers Union, the lobbying arm of Consumer Reports, pushed back this week against criticism of their recently-released “Meat Without Drugs” report and campaign to pressure grocery chains to sell
Burch Equipment LLC in North Carolina is expanding their recall to include 13,888 cases and 581 bins of whole Athena cantaloupes, 188,902 melons in all, for possibly being
Low-level radioactivity was discovered in a packaged oats product from Japan on sale at a retail outlet in Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Center for Food Safety (CFS)
Provincial public health and milk marketing regulations that have prevented the sale or distribution of raw milk in Canada for the past 80 years are about to be challenged in