Is there a good reason to keep a company’s name secret when it is linked to a foodborne illness outbreak?
I have a great deal of respect for Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, Deputy Director
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Stealth – the act or characteristic of moving with extreme care and quietness, especially so as to avoid detection
– Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
On Monday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Food Safety News, the Michigan Department of Community Health released documents again naming Taco Bell as the mystery Mexican-style fast food chain
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Full Disclosure: If you do not like lawyers, and according to most polls lawyers are less liked than members of Congress, your first thought might be that this op-ed’s purpose is to get public health
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The National Research Council (NRC) recently suggested that FSIS release of establishment-specific data could benefit food safety. Pertinent excerpts of media reports include the following statements:
“Substantial benefits can be gained by publicly posting (a)
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Posting the results of government meat, poultry and egg inspections and testing data could have “substantial benefits” to food safety, according to the highly respected National Research Council.
An NRC committee made up of agriculture
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