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U.N. officials say food safety is entwined with food security

By Coral Beach on June 9, 2016

Few threats addressed by the United Nations are as undiscriminating as foodborne pathogens, which don’t honor international borders or differentiate between first- and third-world status. Similarly few threats addressed by the international body are as…
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FDA’s former top food cop now focused on food security

By Michael Taylor on June 8, 2016

Editor’s note: Mike Taylor, who just left his post as deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, sent this message to friends and colleagues June 8 and granted Food Safety News permission to reprint it …
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IAFP Interview: Kennedy on Food Security and Fraud

By James Andrews on August 27, 2014

Shaun Kennedy, director of the Food System Institute and professor at the University of Minnesota, recently sat down with Food Safety News to discuss a number of topics related to food security and food fraud.…
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Putting Science on the Table

By Charlotte Hebebrand on August 22, 2014

I’m heartened by the fact that so many people are finally talking about food and nutrition security. There is increasingly widespread recognition that our growing population, increasingly volatile weather conditions, limited natural resources, and many…
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Did You Eat Today? Thank a Food Worker

By Michele Simon on November 20, 2012

The most under-reported  and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day — often under inhumane conditions — harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals, packing boxes,…
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Why Low-Income Countries Should Care About Food Safety

By Mirriam Kutha on October 11, 2012

Food safety is one of the most ignored areas of policy in low-income countries, especially in Africa. As a result, food systems in these countries are not always as well organized and comprehensive as in…
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U.S. Third In Food Safety After Israel and France

By Dan Flynn on July 17, 2012

Safety is almost an asterisk in the Global Food Security Index, recently released by DuPont and the Economist Intelligence Unit. In an overall assessment of the affordability, availability and quality of food, the United States…
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US and China Sign 5 Year Ag Agreement on Food Safety, Security

By Helena Bottemiller on February 17, 2012

The United States and China signed a five year agreement on food security, sustainable agriculture, and food safety at an agricultural symposium in Iowa Thursday.

“We are the world’s two largest agricultural producers and strong

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Assessing the Risk of Intentional Contamination

By Marijke Schwarz Smith on December 28, 2010

In what was the latest reminder that any nation’s food supply can be vulnerable to intentional contamination, CBS News recently reported the sketchy details of a supposed terrorist plot to slip poisons into restaurant and

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CBS Reports Terrorists Might Target Food

By Mary Rothschild on December 22, 2010

CBS News reported it first on Monday night–that U.S. officials had gotten wind of a terrorist plot to slip poisons into hotel and restaurant salad bars and buffets in multiple locations during a single weekend.

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Meat and Poultry Are Harder Targets Now, Tommy

By Dan Flynn on December 10, 2010

Whether it was a Washington gaffe (telling the truth by accident) or whether then U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson really meant to say it, he spoke with unusual candor in 2004

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