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LGMA’s York wants to bring pre-harvest testing to leafy greens in California

By Dan Flynn on April 29, 2021
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Tim York is “passionately focused on food safety,” according to his biography from the California Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (LGMA). And, maybe that’s true.

For anyone passionate about food safety, it inevitably means preaching…
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Letter From The Editor: Rebuilding Season

By Dan Flynn on January 10, 2016

Coral Beach, formerly of The Packer, is the new managing editor of Food Safety News. She succeeds Cathy Siegner, who left us in December to become a project director for Ballotepedia. Also…
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FDA Seeks to Mesh Public and Private Food Safety Accountability

By The Packer on October 20, 2014

(This article by Tom Karst, national editor of The Packer, was first published Oct. 19, 2014, and is reposted here with his permission.) ANAHEIM, CA—The last word on food safety regulations for the produce…
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Food Safety Regulations Will Change Industry, Brackett Says

By The Packer on August 28, 2014

(This article by Tom Karst, national editor of The Packer, was first published Aug. 26, 2014, and is reposted here with permission.) The U.S. Food and Drug and Administration’s new food safety regulations aren’t…
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FDA ‘High-Risk’ Designation Would be a Recipe for Disaster

By The Packer on May 30, 2014

(This May 23, 2014, opinion column by Tom Karst, national editor of The Packer, is republished here with permission.) Is there any way to overcome the distinction of being tabbed by the Food and…
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Cantaloupe at the Crossroads

By The Packer on September 4, 2012

The unwritten rule in the produce industry is that a company should not market its product as safer than a competitor’s. The thinking is that once consumers get it in their heads that a fruit…
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