For anyone who still gets the printed version of The New York Times, the pretty magazine among all those advertising inserts is worth a read today. It contains a smartly illustrated story entitled, “How School Lunch Became the Latest Political Battleground,” by Nicholas Confessore. It can also be found online
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USDA: New York Times Article Misrepresented IT Malfunction
The story of a two-day computer system failure within the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month has been exaggerated by The New York Times and does not accurately represent the state of meat inspection during system downtime, according to the inspection administrator for the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection
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NYT Editorial Weighs in on USDA IG Report on Pig Slaughter
The New York Times editorial board on Monday weighed in on a U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General report on pig slaughter, a month after the report was issued. “In the United States, there are some 8,600 federal meat inspectors working in 6,300 packing and processing plants. Their task is
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New York Times Wants FDA to Get Moving on Limiting Antibiotics
For the second weekend in a row, the New York Times editorial board weighed in on food safety issues. On Sunday, the paper published an editorial titled “Get Antibiotics Off the Farm,” saying the paper hopes the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a recent ruling that the
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New York Times Editorial Highlights FSMA Delay
The New York Times editorial on Sunday called on the Obama administration to move key Food Safety Modernization Act rules forward so that the rulemaking process can begin.
In an editorial titled, “Food Safety on Hold” the New York Times argued that while First Lady Michelle Obama champions
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Pork Industry Takes Aim at Bittman's New Column
The pork industry is taking issue with Mark Bittman’s inaugural New York Times food opinion column, “A Food Manifesto for the Future.” In a letter to the editor published Tuesday, Randy Spronk, chairman of the National Pork Producers Council’s environment committee, said the industry disagreed with Bittman’s call to outlaw
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Top Food Safety Stories of 2010: No. 5
In our top food safety news stories of 2010, number 5 was about the ordeal of a young woman and an E. coli-contaminated hamburger:
Outbreaks and their victims sometimes go away for a while, and then come back into the public arena with a vengeance. That’s what happened in 2010
NYT Uncovers ‘Hamburger’ Secret
Fatty slaughterhouse trimmings that previously could be used only for pet food or for making cooking oil are now being treated with an ammonia bath that produces a “pink slime” that is being used to make a treated product being sold as “hamburger” throughout the United States.
In a report
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AMI Responds to E. coli Bill
Earlier this week, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced she will introduce the E.coli Eradication Act, a bill that would mandate greater E. coli testing in ground beef processing, as part of her broader proposal to help fix the federal food safety system.
The bill would require ground beef processors to