After much thought and consideration, here is the Food Safety News Nice list for 2009:
NICE: Sen. Dick Durbin for being the driving force behind food
safety legislation in the
PART I: On the status of Senate food safety bill, the engagement between consumer and small/sustainable agriculture groups, and President Obama’s food safety education: A conversation with CSPI’
Once upon a time, the U.S. Department of Labor was off and running with a new, popular workplace safety law to implement. Then they ran into Bill Barlow in
As I flew home Friday, I realized the irony of the shirt I was wearing. It said “Put a trial lawyer out of business. Pass food safety reform BEFORE Thanksgiving.
Haylee Bernstein miraculously survived a very serious 14-week battle with E. coli, and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, from eating pre-washed mesclun lettuce greens when she was three years old. Following her
“Maybe I’m just cynical.”
“Maybe I’m naïve about the inner workings of the legislative process.”
“After all, I’m still a fresh-faced-recent-law-school-graduate. What do I know about creating
Small-scale produce farmers are keeping a wary eye on proposed federal food safety legislation, fearful that if the final bill calls for cumbersome paperwork, high registration fees for those involved
PART II: On the pending food safety legislation, the impact on small farmers, and the agency’s capacity to inspect the food supply: A conversation with Dr. David Acheson, former
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a bill that would greatly increase the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authority and mandate over the food system, was unanimously voted
In the past year alone, the U.S. has seen recalls of almost 4,000 food and beverage items, widely ranging from spinach and tomatoes to peanuts and milk products.
Monday the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released Chairman Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) draft markup of the pending S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which
This week the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), who together represent about 85 percent of the dairy industry, called on the Senate to