New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has once again proposed a law that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) the ability that it does not believe it already has
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Publisher’s Platform: Time to Discard That Wire Brush?
Internal injuries from ingestion of wire grill-cleaning bristles are well documented. In a single hospital system, 12 patients with injuries due to ingestion of wire bristles were reported between July 2009 and June 2012. The
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Publisher’s Platform: Will Whole Genome Sequencing Solve More Outbreaks?
“No illnesses have been reported to date.” How many times have we read a food recall notice posted on either the FDA or FSIS websites and written by the companies recalling the product who use
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Publisher's Platform: It is Time for a Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Food Safety
Food safety programs are the crazy uncles of corporate food production – everyone has one, but no one really wants to talk about it.
Corporate management on average is far more interested in sales and
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Publisher's Platform: Townsend Farms Class Letter
I know lawyers suffer from an image problem. Most people think we spend our weekend on fancy golf courses or driving jet boats around tropical isles. I actually like driving jet boats at high speed.
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Publisher's Platform: McDonald's and E. coli, 30 Years Later
A few weeks ago I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in
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Publisher’s Platform: Perhaps No Need for Private A.G?
This is somewhat of a reprint of an Op-ed of a few years ago. However, in light of this week’s 76-count indictment of Stewart Parnell and four others, I thought a reprint was in order.
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Publisher’s Platform: All About Hepatitis A
In a continuing effort to keep current on those bugs that are bad for us, we have updated www.about-hepatitis.com.
Exposure to the hepatitis A virus can cause an acute infection of the liver that
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Publisher’s Platform: Tracking Cantaloupe Outbreaks
The Outbreak Database has come in handy to track just how often cantaloupes – and other foods – have caused problems. Here is a sample platter of outbreaks linked to cantaloupe with links to citations:
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Publisher’s Platform: Ode to the Microbiological Data Program
I was going to take a weekend off from Publisher’s Platform. It has been a long couple of weeks of long days, and more than a few late nights, working on putting the cases together
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