There was a lot of hand-washing going on during the Northwest Washington Fair last week in Lynden, WA. Yes, there were the usual farm exhibits, carnival rides, food booths, music, talent shows, and much more.
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Publisher’s Platform: A Few More Survey Results, Please
We have had nearly 1,000 responses to our recent survey. However, the more we get, the better we can understand how to make Food Safety News better. We are extending the survey through next week,
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Publisher’s Platform: Please Keep Those Survey Responses Coming
So far, we have had nearly 500 responses to our recent survey. However, the more we get, the better we can understand how to make Food Safety News better. FSN has nearly 150,000 Facebook “likes,”
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Survey: Help Us Make Food Safety News Even Better
We want to know a little more about you so that we know how to make Food Safety News even better. FSN has nearly 150,000 Facebook “likes” and more than 27,000 Twitter followers. Do you
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Letter From the Editor: Legacy or Not, FSMA Funds Needed Now
Last week, former Food Safety News Washington, D.C., correspondent Helena Bottemiller Evich reached a bold conclusion — namely that the Obama administration has missed out on the opportunity to include food safety in any legacy
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Letter From the Editor: Has the Foodie Craze Run its Course?
Back in the days when Time magazine was found at every grocery store checkout line, we knew when a trend or topic was about to be history. It was when it appeared on the cover
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FSN Writer Beecher Wins Five Washington Press Association Awards
Food Safety News writer Cookson Beecher won five awards — all of them in the daily news category — at the 2015 Washington Press Association awards banquet held on May 9 at the Museum of
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Letter From the Editor: Missing Riots, Crab Cakes in Baltimore
Street protests that turn into riots are among my least favorite forms of lawlessness. Usually the crowd is either the patsy or the willing dupe. When the World Trade Organization met in Seattle in 1999,
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Letter From the Editor: The Fourth-Deadliest Outbreak in U.S. History
When the news broke last month that a settlement was reached involving 66 victims of the 2011 Listeria outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupe, I remember thinking that I needed to go back and make sure
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Editor’s Note: No New Content Posted Here Until Sunday Night
Please be aware that the Food Safety News website will remain static from 8 p.m. PST Thursday, Feb. 19, until 8 p.m. PST Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, so that necessary system updating and maintenance work
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