Wednesday’s release of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates on foodborne illness in the U.S., which are significantly lower than the oft-cited decade-old estimates, left
Pending food safety legislation hit a serious snag late Thursday as Senate Democrats abandoned their effort to fight for an all-encompassing provision to fund the government through September.
The fate
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Wednesday reintroduced the Single Food Safety Agency Act of 2010, a bill that would create a single federal agency to oversee the nation’s
Honestly, I have lost track of how often I have done the back and forth to “the other Washington” over the last several years.
For the longest time (when the
With the food safety bill’s passage in the House Wednesday, it appears that small farm and producer exemptions, which were added in the Senate, will be a part of
Food safety legislation inched forward Wednesday as the House passed the Senate version of the bill as part of a larger resolution to fund the federal government for the next
House Democratic leaders are indicating that beleaguered food safety legislation will likely be considered by the lower chamber this week, as early as Wednesday or Thursday.
The food safety bill
With last week’s Senate action on major food safety legislation, mainstream media coverage of food safety has picked up considerably, bringing a flurry of entertaining and even absurd articles
The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year’s holiday parties, a big gesture
Despite a last-minute procedural move by House Republicans to block it, a vote is expected today on the $4.5 billion legislation (over the next 10 years) that would expand