I will be heading back to the States on Tuesday a 1:00 PM from Auckland and will arrive in Seattle on Tuesday at 11:00 AM (I was going to go straight to Washington D.C., but that has been put off for a week). Prior to my at the NZ Food Safety Authority’s national conference, I had the chance to be on TVNZ for their early show. A few pithy quotes:
“E. coli, campylobacter, salmonella can cause devastating illnesses that cost families and loved ones.”
“So whether you’re manufacturing food for your own population or for export – it’s really important that you get it right.”
“We like to do things big in the US. There are 62 million chickens just in Iowa. So if a chicken factory has a little problem it gets amplified very quickly.”
I also had time to pen my weekly Publishers Platform for Food Safety News:
“Good Day” from a day ahead of any point in the United States from the Tongariro Lodge on the North Island of New Zealand. As I write this, I am sitting under a stuffed 8½ pound Rainbow Trout caught in 1984 by then ex-president Jimmy Carter on the same river my daughter and I fished the last to days – that was after we bungy jumped off a bridge that, well, was far too high above another river.
There is nothing like seeing a fish caught by the first President that I was old enough to vote for (I was 19 in 1976), or perhaps it was jumping off a bridge, to focus your attention on how quickly the years stack up. So, how do I turn Jimmy Carter into something about food safety? Let’s see if I can do this?Continue Reading A few days in New Zealand talking food safety
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