My dear friend and video guy, Terry Tainter, was in South Africa in October when I was there for a food safety conference, so he had time to do a bit of video at the conference and on safari.
Bill Marler’s South Africa Food Safety Speech and Adventure from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
From POLITICO this AM:
USDA will announce the departure today of Elisabeth Hagen as under secretary for food safety, a USDA official tells POLITICO. An announcement is expected later from USDA’s Office of Communications that could outline her leaving the department in mid-December.
Hagen has served as under secretary since Aug. 2010. Her most notable
After litigating foodborne illness lawsuits for 20 years, food has become a “contact sport,” much like football, or for the rest of the world, soccer. Whether it is dining at home or out, the thought of how the food might well poison you is never far from my mind. Years ago, I asked my long
I had a great time at the Food Safety Network Food Safety Conference and had some time to see some of the locals at the Ivory Tree Game Lodge.
After flying from Seattle to Amsterdam (1 hour layover) and then on to Johannesburg – nearly 24 hours without the internet – well, I did get some in as I ran from one gate to the other in Amsterdam – I made it to “Joberg” and the folks at the Food Safety Network. I
Two years ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a Citizen Petition urging the USDA/FSIS to issue an interpretative rule, similar to what the agency had already done for E. coli O157:H7 in 1994 and other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in 2011, declaring specific strains of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella to be adulterants. Download
PROVISIONAL AGENDA: DAY 1
07h30 Registration & Refreshments
08h30 Symposium Starts
17h00 Symposium Closes
This ground-breaking symposium will address the issues surrounding the very relevant topics of foodborne
illnesses and food fraud – the risks, responsibilities and liabilities.
Note: Book giveaways will be taking place throughout the course of the day.
08h30 Symposium Welcome and
Before being on a plane to Phoenix and before flying to South Africa, I stopped into Pullman to participate in a memorial service today. Here was my small part:
Dr. William Glenn Terrell and I shared the same first name, but in the turbulent 70’s, I could never admit that. From 1977 to 1982 I
This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert (NOT A RECALL) due to concerns that illness caused by strains of Salmonella Heidelberg are associated with raw chicken products (presumably not ground meat, but whole or cut chicken) produced by Foster Farms at three facilities
Well, we are having yet another Salmonella outbreak linked to birds, this time chickens.
The USDA FSIS has a (oddly termed) “Performance standard” for Salmonella in young chickens at 7.5 percent, and the reality is that what you will find in the store is likely even higher.
Although many consumers know that chicken should be
