Editor’s Note: Doug Farquhar, J.D., is the governmental affairs director at the Denver-based National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). He has once again exclusively provided Food Safety News with a detailed report on food safety developments in the 50 states. He developed his system for tracking state legislative action during his
Continue Reading 2022 State Food Safety Enacted LegislationA woman who lived into her 90s in the Australian province of New South Wales (NSW) has become the sixth fatality in a rockmelon-caused listeriosis outbreak. With her death, the outbreak’s fatality rate is approaching 32 percent.
Rockmelons, or what we call cantaloupes in North America, are again being sold
Continue Reading Timeline on Australian listeriosis outbreak has yet to expire
Back in the day when I was at South Dakota State University, we had a name for our sister land grant universities to the south in Lincoln, Nebraska and Manhattan, Kansas. We called them graduate schools. And I’ve long thought Kansas State University in particular was a pretty smart place.
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Saluting barfblog and eFoodAlert
Because of his Barfblog and associated Bites (Safe food from farm to fork) website, Professor Doug Powell is probably one of the best-known faculty members on the Kansas State University campus. Except Professor Powell has not been on campus lately. For the past couple years, he’s been living in Brisbane,
Continue Reading Prof Douglas Powell Says K State Doesn't Want Him Back
