Editor’s Note: Thirty years ago, hundreds of reporters were assigned to cover State Legislatures, and competing wire services tracked everything. Today’s corporate entertainment media sees all that as an unnecessary expense, and state legislative coverage has become thin to zero.
That makes it a real challenge for those of us
Continue Reading The Farquhar report on 2024 state Legislative food safety actions
Wyoming, Utah and Virginia are among the states that have completed their legislative business for the year. The others might be best said to be at their halfway point. To keep track of state action on food safety and related bills, we’ve again turned to Doug Farquhar, JD
Farquhar is
Continue Reading At the mid-point, state legislatures have passed four food safety-related bills with many others pending
The Denver-based National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) has researched and carefully crafted a series of new policy statements in response to concerns from environmental health professionals and industry.
The full policy statements are available at https://www.neha.org/government-affairs/neha-policy-statements . NEHA represents more than 6,600 governmental, private, academic, and uniformed services sector environmental
Continue Reading U.S. food safety concerns top NEHA’s ‘key environmental health’ statement
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles leading up to the 20th annual Food Safety Summit. The event, from May 7-10 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in suburban Chicago, includes certification courses; a trade show with exhibitors from industry, academia and government; an extensive list of
Continue Reading NEHA credentialed food safety auditors crucial to supply chain
The Indiana State Department of Health and the Kentucky Department of Public Health have been awarded the John J. Guzewich Environmental Public Health Team Award for their combined response to the multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes from Chamberlain Farms in 2012. Using food questionnaires, epidemiologists in Kentucky and Indiana
Continue Reading Indiana, Kentucky Win Prestigious Public Health Award
This week, Food Safety News is acknowledging leaders who help keep our food supply safe. Today we celebrate non-government organizations. Of course, no list is ever complete so if you think we’ve forgotten someone, please leave us a note in the comments. Non-Government organizations bring together groups of like-minded people
Continue Reading The Best of Food Safety: Non-Government Organizations
