The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a Federal Grand Jury subpoena for a former employee of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), four years after the company caused a
I have been known as the “whistleblower” against Peanut Corp. of America, the company responsible for the peanut butter Salmonella outbreak of 2009, which eventually turned into the largest food
Everything I know about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), I learned from a U.S. District Attorney for Idaho years ago. He was, I think, taken aback by
I have developed a friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2009. Many of them attended a press conference
When Shirley Almer’s grown children describe their mother’s death just days before Christmas Day 2008, they say that the lively 72-year-old grandmother beat cancer twice, but she couldn’
I was reading Greg Phillip’s piece in the Dothan Eagle about the “Peanut Proud” celebration in Blakely, GA this weekend. “Peanut Proud” even has a web page and a
In recognition of food safety month, Food Safety News will be profiling people whose lives have been altered or ended by a foodborne illness. In this series, we hope to
In a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments recount how they tracked the
Do you remember Domino’s Pizza employees Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, who made a video of Setzer, 32, putting cheese up his nose before putting it on a sandwich,
Suicide is not the usual way for a bill to die.
But that word may be appropriate to the obituary of Colorado House Bill 11-1190, a bill that would have
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Justice inquiring about the status of the department’s investigation into Peanut Corporation of America
Last Friday I spoke at the Government Accountability Project Food Integrity Campaign conference. During the lunch break, food safety attorney and advocate Bill Marler hosted a press event with 10