Every hour of every day people around the world people are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption.
They’re not just shuckin’ corn in Nebraska
Scientists in the Corn Husker State earned recognition yesterday for their leadership on
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Georgia’s Public Health Commissioner Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald has been named by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price as the 17th director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
Fitzgerald was sworn in as Georgia’s public
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Just ahead of the anticipated appointment of an FDA commissioner by President Donald J. Trump, there’s a bit of a buzz about a new candidate who is the fourth to be seriously considered for the job of regulating more than $1 trillion of annual economic activity.
All the candidates for
Continue Reading Candidates for FDA top job focus on drugs, not food, so far
At noon Friday, when President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office, Dr. Tom Frieden ceased being director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He left CDC on a day when the agency was dealing with the first known outbreak in the U.S. of Seoul Virus, a
Continue Reading Rear Admiral with a lot of experience now acting CDC director
