Being only the second group named, several more of this year’s inductees to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame are deceased legends from a time when their names alone made the public feel safe about their food.
Ray Kroc, Harland Sanders, and Dave Thomas were the men who made McDonald’s
Here is an easy case to make: The pursuit of E. coli O157:H7 and its total eradication has been the holy grail of the meat industry since at least the infamous 1993 Jack in the Box case. The industry has acknowledged millions have been spent in research and the in-plant
Continue Reading Questioning the Search for More Strains of E. coli
To remedy what the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently called “a widespread lack of understanding” in validating Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems for meat processors of all sizes, the agency’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a guidance this Spring to clarify some of the
Discussion on the link between antibiotic resistance in humans and the routine, subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production rolls on. For the past several weeks, congressional staff working on food, agriculture, and health issues have heard from both both sides of the debate with a series of briefings
Top meat industry groups held briefings on Capitol Hill Tuesday defending the use of antibiotics as a critical tool for animal health.
The briefings come two weeks after CBS Evening News with Katie Couric broadcast a two-part series criticizing the widespread use of antibiotics in food animal production. Those in
Continue Reading Meat Industry Defends Antibiotic Use
Meat industry groups are bracing for consumer backlash from a much-anticipated CBS Evening News series on antibiotic use in food animal production, scheduled to air this week after experiencing several delays.
The series, scheduled to air Feb. 9 and 10 (6:30 p.m. EST), is widely expected to be critical of
Continue Reading Meat Industry Braces for CBS Antibiotics Series
Note: Tomorrow we turn the page to 2010 and we cannot think of a better time to look ahead at the things we know for certain will be in the news of the New Year.
In discussing some of the major emerging trends, we are not making predictions but rather
Continue Reading Emerging Food Safety Issues in 2010
PART II: More of our conversation with John Munsell, the small meat processor who blew the whistle on the largest meat recall in American history. See Part I of the interview here.
John Munsell, dubbed the “meatpacking maverick” by Mother Jones, has spent much of his life
PART I: An Introduction to John Munsell, the ‘meatpacking
maverick,’ who blew the whistle on the largest meat recall in American
history.
John Munsell, dubbed the “meatpacking maverick” by Mother Jones, has spent much of his life on the front lines of food safety.
In
2002, Munsell told the
More Meat Industry Dissembling on E. coli
On October 3, 2009, the New York Times published a lengthy and compelling story about Stephanie Smith and the E. coli O157:H7 infection, and resulting permanent injuries, that she suffered as a result of eating a tainted hamburger patty–specifically, one from a box
Continue Reading Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics . . .
