As a Salmonella Agona outbreak linked to Mexican papayas unfolds, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, is calling on Congress
Faced with harsh budget realities on just about every level, state and local public health associations are ratcheting up their efforts to urge Congress to fund the implementation of the
I’ve always been a sucker for bang, bang presentations. Why so many wait so long before getting to the point, I’ve never been able to figure.
Whether it’
Here on Earth, food suppliers face enough challenges when it comes to keeping their products safe all the way from the farm to the dining room.
But for a small
Each year, roughly 1 in 6 people in the United States gets sick from eating contaminated food. Each of those illnesses represents something that went wrong somewhere along the pathway
President Obama chided House Republicans for seeking steep cuts to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s food safety budget during a news conference at the White House Wednesday.
Clean, separate, cook and chill. Those four words are the main message of the government’s new ad campaign to raise consumer awareness of safe cooking techniques.
Agricultural Secretary Tom
I get a lot of emails and comments, most saying things that I tend not to print. However, this email is one of the more disturbing ones I have received
Just as Washington, D.C. is abuzz with a debate on agriculture appropriations — a bill in the House that would fund key food safety programs on the federal level — members
About a month ago, I was having this feeling that all news people occasionally get that the news of the future will never be as exciting or interesting as the
As one group put it Wednesday, the food safety advocacy community isn’t exactly “enamored” by the proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that advanced