Screen Shot 2017-06-18 at 8.59.17 AMIn the last two months, in between legal work that has taken me from Hawaii, Salt Lake City and Portland, Maine, I have had the honor to speak on food safety at the following venues:

Food Safety Summit – Chicago

Michigan State University – Lansing

Missouri Food Safety Task Force – St. Louis

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PrisonI can hear a bit of silence in the board rooms of America.

Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, without comment.  In April 2015 U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett sentenced the DeCosters to prison, saying they knew or should have known about

fdc596fe48e3cfaef296ee83738e95a2Seattle/King County Public Health is investigating an outbreak of gastroenteritis with abdominal cramps and diarrhea associated with Rancho Bravo Tacos at 1001 East Pine St, Seattle. Four people from a single party became ill soon after eating food at the restaurant on 4/22/17; none were hospitalized. Symptoms and timing of illness onset are suggestive of

220px-Golf_balls_kallernaMcCain Foods USA, Inc. announced today it is voluntarily recalling retail, frozen hash brown products that may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials, that despite our stringent supply standards may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product. Consumption of these products may pose a choking hazard or other physical injury

getImage.gifPresident Trump seems to be spending most weekends at his “Southern White House” golfing.  I wonder if he eats the food there or heads to the closest McDonald’s or KFC?  Or, perhaps he will start using Steve Bannon as a food tester?

Jose Lambiet, the Miami Herald’s gossip columnist reported that the food at Mar-a-Lago

57a1593f10351bc4766efb3a2512359cNews4 reports that a Chevy Chase, Maryland, couple who bought a salad mix from a Giant grocery store discovered a live scorpion in their package.

Shanmukha Pranay Rajeev Jerripothula said he and his wife bought a bag of spinach from a local Giant on Friday evening. On Monday afternoon, his wife, Sri Sindhusha Boddapati, opened