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In our nearly 15 years of existence, Food Safety News has consistently informed our readers about state food safety actions. The “Laboratories of Democracy” are incredibly important to food safety.
With something like 2,700 state and local health departments providing the front line in the surveillance for
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Phyllis Entis’s new book “Tainted” is now available as an audiobook. The book is narrated by Entis herself.
The book is particularly topical as the first chapter talks about Cronobacter sakazakii, a dangerous bacterium that has caused an ongoing outbreak. The cronobacter outbreak has sickened at least five infants,
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“Regulation is bad for business.”
It’s an all-too-common refrain, but not exclusively a modern one.
Most people, when asked what they know about the origin of the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, are likely to respond with either a shrug or a blank stare. A few may
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Reading “The Chain: Farm, Factory and the Fate of Our Food,” a new book from journalist Ted Genoways, one begins to wonder who is treated better: the millions of hogs consumed in America each year, or the people who work on the farms and in the factories that breed and
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Two award-winning health writers from the Denver Post have written Eating Dangerously, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield next month. The publishers graciously provided me with a review copy. Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown are beat reporters in one of a handful of states that seems to have
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