A good friend sent me Barry Estabrook’s article from Gourmet Magazine “Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes – If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was picked by a person who lives in virtual slavery.”
I am not sure anyone can read the article and not
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that many food companies are not complying with federal recordkeeping requirements. The requirements, encoded in a 2002 bioterrorism law, are intended to provide the basis for "traceback" upon the discovery of contaminated foods. In other words, the records are designed to enable public health and safety officials
With a current population of 1,319,175,333, according to the China Ministry of Health, there were 431 food poisoning incidents reported in China last year, causing 13,095 illnesses, and 154 deaths.
The United States current population is 306,090,800. Our version or the Ministry of Health, the CDC, reports approximately 76,000,000 illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and
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Health officials now say more than 100 people reported getting sick after eating at an Applebee’s restaurant in suburban Syracuse.
The Onondaga County Health Department says it has confirmed seven cases of Shigellosis among people who ate at the Applebee’s in Camillus in early March. Shigellosis is a bacterial infection associated with consuming water or
For the last two years I have had the honor of speaking in China on food safety and civil litigation – the ability for all consumers to stand up to corporations who poison them and their children. I will be back again this year in September.
Now a Chinese court has officially accepted the first
Got your attention? Food poisoning causes more problems that you thought. The CDC actually reported this today in MMWR:
Cluster of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning — North Carolina, 2007
Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is a distinctive type of foodborne disease that results from eating predatory ocean fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. As many as 50,000 cases are
The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a report which examines problems with the current system and proposes ways to improve the food safety functions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to better protect the nation’s food supply.
Document Title: Keeping America’s Food Safe: A Blueprint
The FDA announced today that the Georgia Nut Company is recalling certain bulk wholesale and retail products containing shelled pistachio nuts that have the potential to be contaminated with the Salmonella organism. The Company said it identified the potential as a result of a rigorous sampling and testing regimen it conducted with respect to shelled
I got this email yesterday:
Zelda Parnell – March 24, 2009 3:56 PM
@hat an A>> Hole you are. You know you probably kept $299 million of the 300. I hope our government never stoops so low as to appoint you to the staff. It already has gone to hell in a hand basket and
Come on – I really have legal work to do. I can not blog all the time. Companies keep poisoning their customers despite my plea to "put me out of business, please."
We have so many issues. All the bills before congress, third-party audits, pasteurization, irradiation, raw milk, single food safety agency, sustainability, and on and
