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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Update: Letter From the Editor: Weekend System Work Rescheduled
UPDATE: We learned on Monday morning that system maintenance work impacting Food Safety News has been postponed to Feb. 19-22. This means we will be publishing as normal this coming President’s Day weekend. The
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Food Safety News Hands Santa Nice List Nominees for 2014
Merry Christmas! Whether today finds you celebrating the birth of Christ, the Winter Solstice, or about to observe Kwanzaa, the one thing everyone can agree on is that we need more nice people in this
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The Top 10 Food-Safety News Stories of 2014
The top 10 food-safety news stories for 2014, as chosen for the sixth consecutive year by the editors of Food Safety News, were announced today. According to the Internet news site, here are this year’s
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Letter From the Editor: Naughty and Nice Nominations Now Due
Traditions mean more to us at Food Safety News than the town of Waging, Germany. You may have read about it. It’s the town in the Alps where the gentleman who long played Santa just
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