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Publisher’s Platform: Anyone there? The government shutdown – Month 2

Day 34 I take a ferry to work guarded at times by now unpaid members of the Coast Guard. Next week with increasing trepidation, I will go through TSA Security

By Bill Marler

/ 25 Jan 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Anyone there? The government shutdown – Month 2

Robots and humans must work collaboratively to make our foods safer

Contributed Sally, a salad-making robot, is programmed to create fresh, healthy and safe salads, based on each customer’s specific requests. Chowbotics, the company behind Sally, created a robot that

By Aaron Cohen

/ 11 Jan 2019

Robots and humans must work collaboratively to make our foods safer

Antimicrobial resistance and whole genome sequencing – What’s new?

Contributed To better understand antibiotic resistance (AMR) in bacteria, agencies within USDA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other federal and

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 2 Jan 2019

Antimicrobial resistance and whole genome sequencing – What’s new?

Publisher’s Platform: Anything that causes food poisoning should be considered an adulterant

Opinion An additional 87 ill people from 16 states were included in this investigation since the last update on Nov. 15. States with newly reported illnesses include: Michigan, Mississippi, and

By Bill Marler

/ 13 Dec 2018

Publisher’s Platform: Anything that causes food poisoning should be considered an adulterant

When is a potato washer not a potato washer? When it’s washing cantaloupes

Opinion Food companies have been at the forefront of technological innovation and scientific research and development for decades upon decades. Cursory attention to the items we eat — how those items

By Guest Contributor

/ 9 Dec 2018

When is a potato washer not a potato washer? When it’s washing cantaloupes

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Nov 2018

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

Opinion The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s reorganization plan, which would relocate a key agricultural research agency outside Washington, DC, has drawn increasing criticism from those who know

By Guest Contributor

/ 25 Nov 2018

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

Of diamonds and meat: Culturing a better future

Opinion The USDA and FDA recently announced their historic agreement to jointly regulate meat grown from animal cells, helping pave the pathway to commercialization of what’s often called cultured

By Guest Contributor

/ 20 Nov 2018

Of diamonds and meat: Culturing a better future

Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

Opinion Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here. In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public

By Carl Custer

/ 13 Nov 2018

Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

Letter from The Editor: Is your credibility on the rise or falling off the charts?

Opinion The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are not known for changing up their relationships with the news media. That’s not necessarily

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Oct 2018

Letter from The Editor: Is your credibility on the rise or falling off the charts?

Will the foodservice industry ever knock down it’s brick wall of denial?

Opinion Day after day, I watch the list of foodborne illness casualties accumulate. As a food safety expert, I receive a ridiculous number of recall alerts and foodborne illness outbreak

By Francine L. Shaw

/ 5 Oct 2018

Will the foodservice industry ever knock down it’s brick wall of denial?

FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety

Opinion Editor’s note: The FDA’s Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Stephen Ostroff combined efforts for this column. We know how important it

By U.S. Food and Drug Administration

/ 4 Oct 2018

FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety

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Publisher’s Platform: Anyone there? The government shutdown – Month 2

Robots and humans must work collaboratively to make our foods safer

Antimicrobial resistance and whole genome sequencing – What’s new?

Publisher’s Platform: Anything that causes food poisoning should be considered an adulterant

When is a potato washer not a potato washer? When it’s washing cantaloupes

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

Of diamonds and meat: Culturing a better future

Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

Letter from The Editor: Is your credibility on the rise or falling off the charts?

Will the foodservice industry ever knock down it’s brick wall of denial?

FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety