(This May 16, 2014, blog post by Brian Ronholm, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is reposted here with permission.
A suburban Chicago school superintendent has obtained permission from his board of directors to withdraw from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). David Schuler, who runs Township High School District
It is spring planting time for farms, and, if hybrid seeds are being planted, chances are some might be genetically engineered (GE) and technically genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to
(This article was initially published May 6, 2014, by The Conversation. Dr. Pennington is Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen.)
On May 7, 1964, a catering-size can
What does it mean when the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents the world’s packaged food and drink industry, puts out a defensive press release about a documentary before it
Brian Ronholm is currently the acting under secretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Before going over to USDA, Ronholm was an appropriations staffer for liberal
By substantial majorities, the Vermont legislature recently passed a bill to require labels on “genetically modified” foods. Gov. Peter Shumlin signed it into law on Thursday. Everyone paying attention expects
Since we have great respect for the high standards of reporting generally found in Food Safety News, we were surprised by a number of uninformed statements in your May 3
I have developed a lasting friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2008-2009. Many of the victims were my
(This article was published May 5, 2014, on Lauren Handel’s law firm site and is posted here with permission.) Vermont’s GMO labeling bill is expected to be challenged
(This blog post by Scott Horsfall was published May 2, 2014, on the California Leafy Greens Products Handler Marketing Agreement site and is posted here with permission.) The U.S.
In a May 3 column, Food Safety News editor Dan Flynn wrote a rather scathing editorial about Vermont’s new GMO labeling law. Among the criticisms, he asked a question: