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30 years of food safety standouts

By Guest Opinion on January 26, 2023

Editor’s note: This column and profiles of the 16 food safety champions (four not pictured above) was originally published by Quality Assurance magazine. It is reprinted here with permission. To read profiles of the individual…

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FDA, USDA, AFDO, and CDC to present at 2022 Food Safety Summit’s Town Hall

By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2022

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By Gary Ades

Top regulators and agency leaders from FDA, USDA, AFDO, and CDC will once again provide food safety professionals, students and regulators with key updates, data, and statistics from their…
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Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic

By Jonan Pilet on October 22, 2020

ROSEMONT, IL — Yesterday’s Food Safety Summit’s annual Town Hall Q&A featured top regulators and agency leaders from FDA, USDA, AFDO and CDC. They talked about their agency’s work during the past year, with a …
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E. coli outbreak growing; source of romaine remains unknown

By Coral Beach on April 27, 2018

Almost 100 people have been infected in an outbreak involving romaine lettuce, and more cases are expected. Federal officials said today they have identified one grower’s romaine as the source of eight of the infections,…
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IAFP debate: Is the pizza or the box actually causing obesity?

By Dan Flynn on July 13, 2017

TAMPA, FL  — There are no “snowflakes” or demands for “safe spaces” from any of the attendees of the International Association for Food Protection. Instead there is a willingness to take sides and debate any…
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CDC sending states new outbreak tool; launching PulseNet 2.0

By Dan Flynn on May 13, 2016

CHICAGO — The federal government is rolling out a powerful new, and increasingly affordable food safety weapon to about 30 states next year and to all 50 within two years. Robert Tauxe, director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was among the speakers at the 18th annual Food Safety Summit. Robert…
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The future is now for America’s food safety programs

By Coral Beach on May 13, 2016

CHICAGO — Optimism was running high at the Food Safety Summit Thursday when four heavy hitters took the stage for a town hall session where 2016 was characterized as a tipping point. Advances in science…
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CDC Foundation’s New Business Pulse Issue Focuses on Food Safety

By News Desk on June 18, 2015

BusinessPulse_406x250The focus of the latest issue of CDC Foundation’s Business Pulse web series is food safety. Business Pulse: Food Safety, published Wednesday, describes how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fights foodborne diseases…
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The Prevalence of Foodborne Illness

By James Andrews on June 15, 2015

Days ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its most recent yearly summary of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States. The summary covered the year 2013, and it found that…
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