Living on the Pacific Rim and watching from my office the container ships glide into dock, makes you acutely aware of the global nature of our food supply. Tomorrow I will get a chance to talk to Australian beef producers about their risks in the U.S. Market.
And, on Friday,
Well, according to the Daily Meal:
America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2013: These men and women decide what and how you eat, whether you realize it or not
Bill Marler (#48), a leading food safety advocate and a personal injury lawyer who specializes in defending people who contract foodborne illnesses
A couple of headlines caught my attention this morning.
The first, “China To Offer Up To $48,000 Reward For Food Safety Informers” might find some takers.
Apparently, China will offer up to 300,000 Yuan ($48,200) as a cash reward to people who report on others who violate food safety laws. Frequent Chinese media reports refer
I had an opportunity to be on Inside Story Americas on Aljazeera yesterday. Here is the link.
Here is one of my quotes:
“I think our government and industry has a responsibility to try to drive those numbers down. The numbers of many foodborne pathogens have gone down, but they have gone down because of
I am in lovely, sunny Boulder this AM for a speech to those providing safe food to the students on the University of Colorado campus. Here is my Powerpoint without the videos that I will be showing too:
Rumor has it (email from The Nature Conservancy) that the FDA will release their long awaited proposed rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) tomorrow and it will be in the Federal Register on Monday. There will be a 120 day public comment period.
Will rumor be reality?
Helena Bottemiller of Food Safety News reports that the Microbiological Data Program (MDP), which used to conduct 80 percent of all federal produce testing for pathogens like Salmonella and Listeria, officially shut down on December 31, 2012. The $4.5 million program had been in shutdown mode since mid-November.
The produce industry lobbied to eliminate
Wishing you all, and your friends and family, the very best.
Lauren Beth Rudolph died on December 28, 1992 in her mother’s arms due to complications of an E. coli O157:H7 infection – Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. She was only 6 years, 10 months, and 10 days old when she died. Her death, the deaths of three other children, and the sicknesses of 600 others, were eventually
Barry Estabrook has published a great story on the problems with FDA oversight – it is worth a full read, but I like these parts:
“It’s like doing 100 miles an hour on a lonely stretch of highway in Montana,” says William Marler, a Seattle-based attorney who has represented food-poisoning victims in court for 20
