I do not believe in the death penalty for selling tainted food, but you just have too wonder?
The big news in China after I got home from this year’s China Food Safety Conference is "Pair Executed Over China Tainted Baby Milk" that is running in paper’s around the world this morning (not actual photo):
Two men have been executed for their part in China’s tainted milk scandal. Both men faced a firing
Quote of the Day – With Friends Like These ……..
"There’s plenty of people in the meat industry who, if they looked in the rearview mirror and saw they accidentally ran over Bill Marler, they’d put the car in reverse and make sure," said David Theno, a food-safety expert hired to revamp Jack in the Box after the outbreak.
Theno, it should be noted, considers
Seattle Times Weighs in on Food Safety
Here in Seattle we are down to one major daily, and every once in awhile they step up and do an interesting article or two. In the Pacific Northwest weekend magazine published by the Times is an article, "The Green Issue: Our Food, Ourselves," which I can not seem to find online. There are a
Government Accountability Project (GAP) Speech of Protecting Food Integrity
I am the Luncheon Speaker Friday (I always find it odd when I am asked to speak over a meal). Here is the outline of Speech at The Government Accountability Project (GAP) – videos can be found on right.
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 32-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and
S 510 – FDA Food Safety Modernization Act “Mark-up” on to Senate Floor
It has been a busy few days. I spent all day and evening Wednesday trying to resolve a number of E. coli O157:H7 cases involving the Barbecue Pit and Nebraska Beef in South Georgia – made some progress, but not there yet on all the cases. This morning was the deadline given to the insurers
Pictures from last week’s China Food Safety Conference
For those avid blog readers who wondered what happened to me last week, I was doing more than hiking the Great Wall.
“Change?” Give me a $%&#ing Break – FDA backs off oyster ban after strong criticism
I’m still dealing with a bit of jet lag from my trip to China. I woke up too early this morning (about 1 AM), and just woke up from a nap in my office chair to yet another move by the Obama administration that shows that "real change" in Washington is hard to come by
What will the USDA do about non-E. coli O157:H7 Shiga Toxin E. coli?
Several weeks ago I filed with the USDA a Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring all enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1). The Petition can be found here.
I just received notice that the USDA received it.
Now, let’s see
Speech at China Agricultural University School of Law
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Perhaps not quite on par with the Great Wall or the Forbidden City, yet meeting the about 150 law students was pretty exciting – even for my 10-year-old daughter, Sydney (she took the photo). Think of China Agricultural University as a Davis/WSU/Cornell with a Law School.
I had been invited to speak by Dean Yu