New Orleans is back.
Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the
Oysters collected from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana are turning up with extremely high levels of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. The amounts–at 150 to
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is re-opening 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters to royal red shrimping, a deep-water fish that has been prohibited in
Another half dozen new governors are taking office this week as the changeover in the nation’s executive mansions plays out. A majority of the statehouses are not only getting
Along with the many environmental problems posed by global climate change, an increase in ambient temperature could have negative effects on food safety everywhere, but particularly in developing countries.
That’
In our countdown of the year’s top food safety stories, number 3 was the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on the area’s seafood industry:
The
Some 100 people have reported becoming ill after eating desserts from an Illinois pastry company that has since recalled products made after Nov. 1, the Illinois Department of Public Health
The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year’s holiday parties, a big gesture
The Gulf seafood story, which began with the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and subsequent spill of BP’s oil, is ending 2010 on a decidedly
A local Colorado health department has just completed its 10th year of trying to improve food safety by handing out some carrots.
The Jefferson County Health Department, serving the rolling
At its height, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) closure of Gulf of Mexico waters to fishing covered an area larger than the State of Minnesota.
Now at just
The Senate today approved a cloture motion for the long-awaited FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, or S. 510. The cloture vote, which eliminates the threat of filibuster by limiting debate,