April is a busy month.
Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health
April 9-10, 2013
Jack in the Box and E. coli O157:H7: The Outbreak, the Investigation and Improvements in Food Safety
I get to share the stage with Phillip Tarr, MD, Melvin E. Carnahan Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
I’m off to Boston this week to the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference. I will be on a panel with the following exploring – Why is food still making us sick in the 21st century?
• Will Daniels, senior vice president, operations and organic integrity, Earthbound Farm
• Bill D. Marler, J.D., managing partner,
I am somewhere in the air over Nebraska off to give another food safety speech, and my office emailed me a letter that I have been awarded the Seattle University Law School Distinguished Graduate Award. According to the letter, the award was established to honor an alumnus whose career achievements embody the mission, principles, and
JoNel Aleccia, Staff Writer for NBC News posted an interesting article yesterday: “Horse meat in the US? Unlikely, but tests are rare.”
I have been wondering when the food fraud story going on throughout Europe surrounding passing horse meat off as beef would make it here. Putting eating pony aside, Ms. Aleccia and I discussed
I have been working my way through an early release of “Salt Sugar Fat,” and was pleased to see the New York Times Magazine devote 14 pages to an excerpt entitled “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food.” Both the article and the book are worth a serious read. It is changing the way I
This is a very cool video:
I had lunch with an old friend (now days, all my friends are) yesterday who asked me why Foster Farms and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) have not recalled chicken – presumably whole or cut and not ground – even after 124 have been sickened (at least 30 hospitalized)
Fact: Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne illness worldwide, with an estimated 1.4 million cases each year in the United States alone.
Lynne Terry of the Oregonian touched on the issue of Salmonella as or as not an adulterant in her story yesterday: “Foster Farms chicken linked to Salmonella cases in Oregon and Washington
According to the White House Press Office, unless Congress acts by March 1st, a series of automatic cuts – called a sequester – will go into effect to cut $85,000,000,000 across all government programs.
As for the impact of food safety, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be forced to conduct 2,100 fewer inspections
You need a subscription to the National Law Journal to read: “Effort to help out gets plaintiffs firm booted from E. coli case,” but I will give you a bit of the flavor of the back story (here is the PDF).
The bottom line is that we frequently get calls from people (including
