The public has the right to know.
But does it?
When it comes to food safety, that was the question at the heart of tensions between Washington state and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Continue Reading Bill patches up tensions between state and FDA for ‘consumers’ best interests’
The Washington State Department of Agriculture is about to find out if appeasement works with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In 2018 the FDA stopped sharing nonpublic information with the state department (WSDA), and
Continue Reading Exemptions added to state public disclosure act to get FDA to resume sharing information
The FDA uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations on food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the
Continue Reading FDA modifies alerts for food imports
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 a bad thing as the information
Continue Reading Letter from The Editor: Is your credibility on the rise or falling off the charts?
Even though the state has standing warnings about the risk of infections from bacteria in raw milk, Virginia officials did not alert the general public to an E. coli outbreak in March 2016 that sickened
Continue Reading 17 months later — State hopes to complete outbreak report
Michigan public health officials are urging consumers to avoid drinking or serving unpasteurized, raw milk because of two recent cases of E. coli infections in young children. Both of the children, in Oakland and Wayne
Continue Reading Michigan warns against raw milk; two children sick from E. coli
Seven years in the making, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is about to begin quarterly releases of establishment-specific data for inspection and enforcement actions as well as sampling and testing results. “FSIS’ food
Continue Reading FSIS moves establishment specific data to open government portal
