I have decided this week that the Tea Party movement is right – business and government in the U.S.A. are a bunch of damn socialists – at least they are when poisoning consumers and investigating outbreaks.
First, full disclosure. When I am not channeling Rupert Murdoch in my role as publisher at Food Safety News
What can one lawyer do to change a food safety system that doesn’t do much to keep people safe? If you’re Bill Marler, spend over a half million dollars of your own money funding an independent study to try and make the USDA take action.
Bill Marler is a name people in the food industry
A BILL to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to revise the definition of the term ‘‘adulterated’’ to include contamination with E. coli.
William Neuman’s article “In E. Coli Fight, Some Strains Are Largely Ignored,” went live a few moments ago. It will be interesting to see if this prompts a serious reassessment by our government of the real risks of non-O157:H7’s. Although Mr. Neuman’s article will be read by a few more millions of people than
Had a great opportunity to speak to a group of folks on the front line of food safety – Environmental Health Inspectors. What was most interesting was that there were several people in the audience who work for Seattle/King County Department of Health in 1993 during the Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak.
I have been struggling with that question as I am preparing for my upcoming speech at NEHA in a few weeks.
As most know, Upton Sinclair’ 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” was intended to expose the exploitation of the workers in the Chicago packing houses, but became a best seller because it exposed the underbelly of
Transparency – Really?
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In the last month the FDA has been investigating an E. coli O145 outbreak that has sickened some 30 people in Michigan (11 confirmed and 2 probable), New York (5 confirmed and 2 probable), Ohio (8 confirmed and 3 probable), Pennsylvania (1 confirmed), and Tennessee (1 confirmed). The outbreak has been linked
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The below dropped into my inbox. It looks like after a 19-month vacancy Food Safety Inspection Services (USDA) is possibly going to finally get a person to run the place.
To: All Committee Members
Title: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Elizabeth Hagen for Positions with the USDA
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 – Likely
I personally do not think BPA should be in cans nor in containers. But, I also think that its ban should not be in S. 510 – "The Food Safety Modernization Act." If it is worth it, stand it alone. But, in and of itself, it should not stand in the way of the first
I was talking with William Newman from the New York Times as he was writing his story on “Tainted Lettuce Linked to Illness in Three States,” when he asked about prior E. coli O145 outbreaks. I was able to pull out of my hat:
“William Marler, a lawyer specializing in such cases, said that
