The fellowship program is a partnership with the Michigan State University Online Food Safety Program. The fellow will live in Chicago and work
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The crystal ball for 2022 shows several food safety topics still in the spotlight
The pandemic will no doubt net more headlines in 2022 than any other topic, but that doesn’t mean discussions and news coverage about food safety will fade away. Along with recalls, outbreaks, and regulations, there will be new practices and technology to cover.
If the pandemic has taught us anything
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Publisher’s Platform: I still want to go out of business — it’s Salmonella this time
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Some, I am sure, are a bit tired of my ranting about the FSIS doing its job and deeming Salmonella that causes human illness an adulterant in meat.
Fact, after E. coli O157:H7 was deemed an adulterant in ground beef in 1994, it took about a decade for E.
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Same canvas, different picture
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By Michael Fisher
The FSN article “25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference,” tells a story through rose-colored glasses. Like Paul Wolseley of the FSIS Office of Field Operations, I too saw the implementation of the Pathogen Reduction; Hazard Analysis and Critical Control
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Finding sympathy in the statistics: Views from Dave Theno Fellow Jaime Ragos
food safety education month
Statistics never account for the trauma or years of suffering that follow foodborne illnesses. While here, at Food Safety News, we try to keep you informed of the numbers, the recalls, and the science, we also recognize that the most important aspect of food safety
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25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference
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This year marks 25 years since FSIS issued its landmark final rule, “Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP),” issued in the summer of 1996.
“Food safety is an ever-evolving process,” said FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker, who began his agency career as an inspector in a food processing
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Parallels
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On Wednesday, Jan. 20, I sat through a few meetings, delivered a presentation on food safety labeling, and was interviewed for a podcast on food safety. All of this work took place at my home as we are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, I joined
Documentary based on bestseller ‘Poisoned’ in the works
A documentary based on Jeff Benedict’s 2013 bestseller “Poisoned” has officially been announced.
The 2011 book, Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak that Changed the Way Americans Eat, chronicles a deadly 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak and the rise of Bill Marler
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Letter to The Editor: Is contributing author HACCP trained?
Opinion
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Dear Editor,
I am responding to Brianna Leach’s article released by Food Safety News on May 26. She includes comments on the USDA’s implementation of
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Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains
Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella strains as adulterants.
But after only about 60 working days, the same attorneys cited Civil Procedure Rule 41 A to get
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