Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher’s Platform: Administration puts clamps on foodborne illness outbreak announcements

— OPINION — Multiple federal health agencies have stopped releasing some key health information — including updates on some outbreak investigations — amid a department-wide communications “pause” ordered by the Trump administration, though many

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Jan 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Administration puts clamps on foodborne illness outbreak announcements

Publisher’s Platform: Great news, Sandra Eskin is new CEO at STOP

— OPINION — Tough to fill the shoes of Mitzi Baum, but the STOP Board did just that. Sandra Eskin is now the CEO for STOP Foodborne Illness. Eskin was appointed USDA

By Bill Marler

/ 21 Jan 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Great news, Sandra Eskin is new CEO at STOP

Smart shopping during recalls: How consumers can protect themselves

By Roger Hancock, CEO of Recall InfoLink — OPINION — Food recalls are often described as safeguards for public health, but in reality, they reveal cracks in our food safety systems. Take

By Guest Opinion

/ 16 Jan 2025

Smart shopping during recalls: How consumers can protect themselves

Ethics, food safety and donations during the Los Angeles wildfires

— OPINION — I grew up in the Los Angeles area and have been living here again for the past few years. The multiple wildfires are devastating in so many ways and

By Darin Detwiler

/ 14 Jan 2025

Ethics, food safety and donations during the Los Angeles wildfires

Down is good and up is bad: Or is it the other way around?

By Steven Grossman Chuck Jolley of Food Safety News recently wrote to me and several others asking: With so many high-profile recalls in 2024, have the federal, state, and local

By Guest Opinion

/ 14 Jan 2025

Down is good and up is bad: Or is it the other way around?

Publisher’s Platform: Has FSIS been asleep at the switch since 2022? How could they let Boar’s Head operate like this?

— OPINION — And, where is the Inspector General’s Report? And, where are the Congressional Hearings? Here is the final paragraph from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s

By Bill Marler

/ 11 Jan 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Has FSIS been asleep at the switch since 2022? How could they let Boar’s Head operate like this?

Publisher’s Platform: Why the lack of transparency FDA?

— OPINION — In early December 2024 the FDA stated: “The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:

By Bill Marler

/ 8 Jan 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Why the lack of transparency FDA?

Unchecked antibiotic use just got more unchecked

— OPINION — By Allie Molinaro If you aren’t already concerned about antibiotic resistance, it’s time to take notice. The UN recently issued a grave warning, declaring antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

By Guest Opinion

/ 5 Jan 2025

Unchecked antibiotic use just got more unchecked

Breaking the cycle of food safety failures from 2024

By Darin Detwiler and Hal King The past year has been defined by a troubling series of foodborne outbreaks and recalls, underscoring systemic weaknesses in the U.S. food safety

By Guest Opinion

/ 30 Dec 2024

Breaking the cycle of food safety failures from 2024

Nutrition research can be unreliable

— OPINION — These days there are so many nutrition studies being vomited out to the public by the media that it’s just too much to swallow. And that’s a

By Sydney Ross Singer

/ 27 Dec 2024

It is time to hold the food industry to account for its role in the declining health of Americans

— OPINION — By Ron Erickson Recently, I visited the immense breakfast cereal aisle at my local supermarket. I was curious to learn from the labels of cereals marketed to children the

By Guest Contributor

/ 26 Dec 2024

It is time to hold the food industry to account for its role in the declining health of Americans

Publisher’s Platform: 2024 was a bad year for Food Safety – here is wishing us all a happier Food Safety New Year in 2025

1. Yu Shang Food, Inc. Ready to Eat Meat Listeria Outbreak: As of December 5, 2024, 19 people from eight states have been infected with the outbreak strains of Listeria.

By Bill Marler

/ 25 Dec 2024

Publisher’s Platform: 2024 was a bad year for Food Safety – here is wishing us all a happier Food Safety New Year in 2025

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher’s Platform: Administration puts clamps on foodborne illness outbreak announcements

Publisher’s Platform: Great news, Sandra Eskin is new CEO at STOP

Smart shopping during recalls: How consumers can protect themselves

Ethics, food safety and donations during the Los Angeles wildfires

Down is good and up is bad: Or is it the other way around?

Publisher’s Platform: Has FSIS been asleep at the switch since 2022? How could they let Boar’s Head operate like this?

Publisher’s Platform: Why the lack of transparency FDA?

Unchecked antibiotic use just got more unchecked

Breaking the cycle of food safety failures from 2024

Nutrition research can be unreliable

It is time to hold the food industry to account for its role in the declining health of Americans

Publisher’s Platform: 2024 was a bad year for Food Safety – here is wishing us all a happier Food Safety New Year in 2025