Hannah Overton, 34, is serving life without the possibility of parole at the Murray Unit, a maximum-security women’s prison near Waco, Texas.
Her crime: capital murder for salt
Instead of a potentially depressing year-in-review post, I decided to look ahead. (But do see Andy Bellatti’s amusing compilation of 2011 food news.) Given all the defeats
The leading food safety agencies–U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease
A lawsuit will be filed on behalf of a 5-year-old Washington state child who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure,
Foodborne illness poses a $77.7 billion economic burden in the United States annually, according to a new study published in the Journal of Food Protection.
The new estimate is
Fad diets tend to promise a lot, but they really rely on one thing: short-term weight loss and health. The Paleo (Paleolithic) Diet is a very popular diet based
The state of Wisconsin has requested a recall of cheese shredded at a plant in which Listeria was later detected in one brand that had been processed at the facility.
Major livestock groups are urging Congress to reject the historic deal struck between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Producers (UEP) on egg production,
A sprouts grower that recalled alfalfa sprouts last month because of a positive Salmonella test is now pulling more varieties off the market because of Listeria concerns.
In a news
On November 21, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published their final update on the 2011 multistate Salmonella outbreak from MealMart-brand “kosher broiled chicken
Full Disclosure: If you do not like lawyers, and according to most polls lawyers are less liked than members of Congress, your first thought might be that this op-ed’
This week I was planning on writing about the emerging food safety issues that we will likely be dealing with in 2012.
Then I looked at what I wrote last