The USDA’s Office of Food Safety is offering a fellowship for graduate students wishing to pursue scientific research. 

Applications are due by 3 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 8. Click here to apply.

Working closely with stakeholders and food safety partners across government, the Office of Food Safety (OFS)  provides
Continue Reading Deadline for USDA fellowship program in food safety research projects is Nov. 8

Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of violations now being overlooked across the United States every year, according to new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior.

The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly
Continue Reading Harvard researchers say fixing food safety inspectors’ schedules could end many violations