Below is the Rivera family. An E. coli O157:H7 infection cost them over $6,000,000 in medical costs and kept Linda, still in a wheelchair, in the hosptial for over two years.
Food poisoning is not a new concern. The problem is, it’s not an old one either. Consumers, Government and Industry have been working to
I have developed a friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2009. Many of them attended a press conference in 2011, where they asked why after two years Parnell was still free? Re-reading internal emails from PCA from 2008 and 2009, I have to
I am giving a talk later this week to the Washington Restaurant Association.
The Oregon Public Health Division, Department of Agriculture and several local Oregon health departments are investigating an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli) infections that have left three Portland-area children hospitalized, two with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a complication of E. coli infection that can lead to kidney failure. All of
This morning, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a video taken undercover at Kreider Egg Farms, a major egg producer in Pennsylvania. The living conditions in the video moved New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof to dedicate an entire column to the subject after he saw an advance copy of the
Food poisoning is not a new concern. The problem is, it’s not an old one either. Consumers, Government and Industry have been working to eradicate foodborne illness in the United States since Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle revealed rampant contamination in the nation’s food supply and thrust food safety onto the national scene. And yet, pathogens
Or, All You Really Do Not Want to Know About the Stuff in Our Food.
From the introductory summary:
The second edition of the Bad Bug Book, published by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides current information
Those damn people who Governor Branstad thinks don’t like meat need to be investigated.
I was reading Mike Glover’s piece: “Iowa Governor seeks Congressional investigation of ‘pink slime,’” and the word “tool” came to mind.
Defined as “a person used as an instrument by another person.” Yes, that would be Republican Governor Branstad (a.k.a., “I
What if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar, privately held food manufacturing company and awoke one morning to find that the name of your best selling product (you previously had painstakingly crafted the name to sound so appetizing) was now known to the public as “Blue Barf,” “Green Goop,” “Purple Puke,” “Red Rubbish,&rdquo
I was reading Greg Phillip’s piece in the Dothan Eagle about the “Peanut Proud” celebration in Blakely Georgia this weekend. Peanut Proud even has a web page and a facebook page. I tried to follow on twitter, but I could not find @peanutproud. Perhaps they will have that next year. Here is part of
