The growing, but increasingly fractured organic industry does little these days that is not without controversy. USDA’s decision earlier this week to buck a recommendation and allow carrageenan as
Over the past 20-plus years I have given countless talks to food industry groups on the moral and business reasons to “not poison your customers.” However, it has only been
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles leading up to the 20th annual Food Safety Summit. The event, from May 7-10 at the Donald Stephens Convention
Restaurants are increasingly moving from clipboards and pens to digital technology. And they should. These digital tools streamline and simplify multiple processes – from taking customers’ orders to facilitating inspections.
But
More than 150 leading norovirus minds gathered in Atlanta this week to celebrate one of the most successful food safety collaborations among industry, academia and regulatory entities known as NoroCORE
From time to time, I am asked why food safety hazards seem more prevalent now than they were two, three or more decades ago.
Why are more types of food
Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here
My friends at CIDRAP did a great job of pouring over the recent FoodNet report in the March 23 MMWR report on the incidence of a variety of pathogens. I
Stic Harris
Courtesy of FDA
Stic Harris, DVM, MPH, has been the director of FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (CORE) since August 2017. He is responsible for
Imagine that the phone call comes or an email pops into your inbox – “Sir, we have been contacted by the health authorities and they say our product (polony) has been
Editor’s note: This opinion column was originally posted on barfblog.com on March 7, 2018.
I’ve always believed in don’t complain, create.
When I didn’t like
Whether you spend spring break partying in a city, exploring a different country or getting some R&R at home, don’t let food safety take a vacation.“Spring