Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Opinion The Camden County Health Department in New Jersey has been notified by a health care provider that a food handler employed at a Starbucks at 1490 Blackwood Clementon Road

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Same canvas, different picture

Opinion By Michael Fisher The FSN article “25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference,” tells a story through rose-colored glasses. Like Paul Wolseley

By Guest Contributor

/ 10 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Opinion If the FDA, CDC, Jimmy John’s corporate officials, and the seed supplier (ISS) had gone public in 2019, would 51 have been sickened in 2020? Here is the

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

Opinion I will spare you the list of hepatitis A cases that I have been involved with since 1998 when I represented 30 people exposed in a Seattle, Washington Subway

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Opinion During the past half century the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual reports show that salmonellosis has been the leading cause of foodborne death. Salmonellosis is caused

By Carl Custer

/ 2 Nov 2021

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Opinion Thank you ProPublica for the searing story about industry’s and government’s failures: “America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Biofilms bring safety challenges to food companies

sponsored content In the first installment of this series with Sterilex, Food Safety News explores what biofilms are and their unique resistance to attempts to kill the pathogens they protect.

By Chris Koger

/ 25 Oct 2021

Biofilms bring safety challenges to food companies

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak

Opinion The last few weeks have sounded remarkably familiar to Spring 2020 when we faced a nationwide (and Canada) Salmonella outbreak linked to California grown onions. We are now facing

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak

Industry can use outbreak reports to decide on food safety programs

Opinion Editor’s note: This column was originally posted by Growing Produce. To subscribe, visit https://www.growingproduce.com/subscribe/ “What do you think was different this season?” While not

By Trevor Suslow

/ 24 Oct 2021

Industry can use outbreak reports to decide on food safety programs

Publisher’s Platform: Famous Anthony’s should pay hepatitis A victims’ medical expenses and wage loss and vaccinate its employees, now!

Opinion Over the last weeks I have talked to and been retained by dozens of Roanoke area residents sickened, and the family members of a man who died, from hepatitis

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Famous Anthony’s should pay hepatitis A victims’ medical expenses and wage loss and vaccinate its employees, now!

Publisher’s Platform: Two foods the Queen does not eat and the 6 foods I do not

Recently I saw an article that reported that the Queen avoids both rare meat and seafoods. Well, we at least have that in common. A few years ago I was

By Bill Marler

/ 11 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Two foods the Queen does not eat and the 6 foods I do not

Letter From The Editor: Leadership & vaccination resistance

Opinion Here’s a spoiler alert. I like vaccinations. Two of my friends growing up, one with mean leg braces and the other confined to a wheelchair, were polio victims.

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Oct 2021

Letter From The Editor: Leadership & vaccination resistance

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Same canvas, different picture

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Biofilms bring safety challenges to food companies

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak

Industry can use outbreak reports to decide on food safety programs

Publisher’s Platform: Famous Anthony’s should pay hepatitis A victims’ medical expenses and wage loss and vaccinate its employees, now!

Publisher’s Platform: Two foods the Queen does not eat and the 6 foods I do not

Letter From The Editor: Leadership & vaccination resistance

Your Support Protects Public Health