Opinion & Contributed Articles

Funding retail food safety is crucial for public health, economic stability and workforce resilience

— OPINION — Retail food safety is a critical component of the nation’s public health infrastructure and serves as the last checkpoint before food reaches consumers. Here, federal support for state,

By Guest Opinion

/ 29 Nov 2024

Funding retail food safety is crucial for public health, economic stability and workforce resilience

Publisher’s Platform: Safe Salads for Thanksgiving

Preparing a safe and delicious salad for Thanksgiving involves following safe food handling practices to minimize the risk of foodborne illness. Here’s how you can do that. Wash Your

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Safe Salads for Thanksgiving

Publisher’s Platform: How to prevent Salmonella or Campylobacter from ruining Thanksgiving

The contamination rate for Salmonella in retail turkey meat can be relatively low but still significant. Various studies and surveys have reported that anywhere from about 4% to 12% of

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: How to prevent Salmonella or Campylobacter from ruining Thanksgiving

Publisher’s Platform: An undercooked hamburger E. Coli Outbreak

At least 19 people in Minnesota have been sickened by E. coli O157:H7 tied to a national recall of more than 167,000 pounds of potentially tainted ground beef,

By Bill Marler

/ 27 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: An undercooked hamburger E. Coli Outbreak

How to keep E. coli off your Thanksgiving menu

Always “fun” to talk about unsafe food during the holidays.

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Nov 2024

How to keep E. coli off your Thanksgiving menu

Publisher’s Platform: Boar’s Head Listeria outbreak deemed over

Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data showed that meats sliced at deli counters, including Boar’s Head brand liverwurst, were contaminated with Listeria and made people sick. Since the last update

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Nov 2024

Letter to the Editor: Workplace injury numbers in poultry industry need closer look

— OPINION — As FSN noted recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that poultry slaughter plants had a huge and unprecedented reduction in the number of workers injured this year: the

By Guest Opinion

/ 24 Nov 2024

Letter to the Editor: Workplace injury numbers in poultry industry need closer look

Publisher’s Platform: Does it seem like the Wheels of the Food Safety Bus are coming off?

Damn, the last few months have been maddening, saddening and exhausting. What is going on? Yu Shang Food Listeria Outbreak As of November 22, 2024, 11 people infected with the

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Does it seem like the Wheels of the Food Safety Bus are coming off?

Publisher’s Platform: Learn from Lauren, cook your burgers

Just about 34 years ago today 6-year-old Lauren Rudolph was about to eat an undercooked, E. coli O157:H7-tainted hamburger at a San Diego area Jack-in-the-Box. She would die just

By Bill Marler

/ 20 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Learn from Lauren, cook your burgers

Could avian flu cause our next pandemic?

— OPINION — This column was originally published by MedPage Today and is reprinted here with permission. Let’s not bury our heads in the sand Colleagues, it’s time to wake

By Guest Opinion

/ 20 Nov 2024

Could avian flu cause our next pandemic?

Dye on the vine

— OPINION — By Renee Leber, Technical Services Manager, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) As more states seek to ban foods with certain dyes or additives in the name of food safety,

By Guest Contributor

/ 14 Nov 2024

The duty to protect (some of us)

— OPINION — We tend to think of public policy as policy that benefits “the public.” Yet few policies, even within the domain of food safety, aim to protect a hypothetical “average

By Thomas Gremillion

/ 4 Nov 2024

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Funding retail food safety is crucial for public health, economic stability and workforce resilience

Publisher’s Platform: Safe Salads for Thanksgiving

Publisher’s Platform: How to prevent Salmonella or Campylobacter from ruining Thanksgiving

Publisher’s Platform: An undercooked hamburger E. Coli Outbreak

How to keep E. coli off your Thanksgiving menu

Publisher’s Platform: Boar’s Head Listeria outbreak deemed over

Letter to the Editor: Workplace injury numbers in poultry industry need closer look

Publisher’s Platform: Does it seem like the Wheels of the Food Safety Bus are coming off?

Publisher’s Platform: Learn from Lauren, cook your burgers

Could avian flu cause our next pandemic?

Dye on the vine

The duty to protect (some of us)