Michelle Obama, America’s First Lady, will be a guest of ‘’Iron Chef America,” a show I have never watched on the Food Network. It will be airing January 3, 2010 and the White House portion was filmed in late October. My friends over at Obamafoodorama were kind enough to put up this teaser
Dubai International Food Safety Conference – 21st to 24th February, 2010
The 5th Dubai International Food Safety Conference is just around the corner. I need to finish up my speech.
Time for 2010 Food Safety Resolutions
Over at Food Safety News we have made lists of who has been naughty and nice in food safety for 2009. We listed the top stories in food safety for 2009 and we guessed on what the top food safety issues for 2010 just might be. Now, we are on to making 2010 food safety
Food Safety Issues for the First Year of the Second Decade
Laws
The U.S. Congress and Legislatures in most of the 50 states will all be back in session as 2010 begins. In Washington D.C., work should resume on food safety reform. To get through to the President’s desk, the Senate must adopt S. 510, conference with the House, and then see the compromise bill passed
FSIS Recall Naughty List 2009
Here is the most current information that I have on hamburger recalls due to E. coli O157:H7 or antibiotic-resistant Salmonella for 2009. The pounds recalled come from FSIS (you should also check on the amount that they actually get back). The sicknesses and deaths are from several sources, CDC, State and Local Health Departments and
USA Today Continues its Critical Look at Food Safety in our Schools
Elizabeth Weiss and Peter Eisler of the USA Today continue on this month’s hard look at the school lunch program in this morning’s “Schools could learn lessons on food safety.” It is a good read. It is concerning, however, that the fast food industry is held up as a model of food safety for our
Washington Post weighs in on the “mechanically tenderized” steaks E. coli Outbreak that has now sickened 21 in 16 States
I always feel a bit better when I know that the big national papers, like the Washington Post, are weighing in on something that I have been blogging about since Christmas Eve. Lyndsey Layton posted online an hour ago – “E. coli-tainted beef infects 21 people in 16 states.”
Unfortunately, even being inside the beltway
Top Ten Food Safety News Stories of 2009
1. New York Times reporter Michael Moss introduced readers to Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor from Minnesota who is partially paralyzed from E. coli O157:H7. In Moss’s Oct. 4 story, it was this paragraph in particular that made readers burn: "The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food
Terrorism Meets Food Poisoning
After the events of the last few days, I am thinking twice about traveling to Europe and the Middle East in a month to speak at a food safety conference. Not that I am particularly concerned about being a target of foreign terrorism myself, although I do find the process that you have had to
USA Today says, “Safety of food at airports spotty.” I might use a different word – “shitty”
I travel an awful lot, domestically and internationally, both suing companies who poison their customers and speaking of food safety, so I suppose Alison Young’s article should not have come as much of a surprise that "[a]irport restaurants … have been cited in the past year for hundreds of food safety violations, local health department reports