From: Susan Mayne, Director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
I am writing in response to the opinion piece published on March 13, 2023, titled “Be Best or Be Better,” by Bill Marler. The article references a letter sent by FDA on March 8
Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: Food safety cannot wait — infant formula letter important to industry
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The United States v. Paul Kruse will be signed, sealed, and delivered at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Courtroom 4 on the Fifth Floor of the federal courthouse in Austin, TX.
Officially the proceeding is a “rearrangement plea and sentencing.” At it, federal Judge Robert
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: The last wordThis letter is in reference to a recent Letter from the Editor in Food Safety News (“An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own”), dated January 29, 2023. As some may remember, I had the great privilege of serving as
Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: We don’t need an upheaval of USDA and FDA to make a single food safety unitIn my Top 10 list of favorite movies is “Casino,” released in 1995 by director Martin Scorsese. One of the reasons I like it is the stars played the roles of real people and the scriptwriters adhered as much as could to the real story.
Robert De Niro is the
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Clovis likely to stay as Perdue’s wingman
No less than the 9/11 Commission said border security should be a cornerstone of national policy. After all, the 19 hijackers who killed 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others in 2001 got into the United States by acquiring visas and gaining admission without challenge.
Time was when we
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Moving faster than a speeding bullet
When I began in the business, there was a question that editors would ask when considering someone for hire. That question was: “How good is his (or her) rolodex? I admit the first couple times I heard this I thought it might be a polite substitute for a different kind
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China was the United States’ largest supplier of goods imports in 2010 and was our 3rd largest supplier of agricultural imports at $3.4 billion.
Leading categories include: processed fruit and vegetables ($811 million), fruit and vegetable juices ($386 million), snack foods (including chocolate) ($190 million), and fresh vegetables ($132 million).
At one point during my seven semesters at South Dakota State University, also known as the Harvard of the Prairie, one of the history professors tried to talk me into going for a third major.
“Why settle for only writing the first draft of history?” he said.
I passed because
There is no other calling than the news business where the professionals sit around talking about “the dog days of summer” like it’s an inevitable occurrence.
Our patronage of this annual rite stands in contrast to the reality we’ve all experienced. My only man-attacks-bear story occurred during the last half
Early during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I found myself in a small Mississippi take-out restaurant nearing the order counter while still reading the menu when I noticed there was a “Catfish Po Boy” on the menu.
Suddenly it was my turn, so I asked: “Domestic
