So, who plays me from 1993?
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Here is the FDA Press Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Michael Taylor announced today that he is leaving the agency on June 1, 2016. As part of a succession plan that ensures both continuity in the program and strong new leadership for the future, Dr. Stephen
Over the last few weeks my interview on the “6 things a food poisoning expert refuses to eat” has gone a bit viral, and for good reason.
RAW MILK – Raw Milk Likely Link in Eight E. coli Cases
SPROUTS – 13 with Salmonella in 4 States after eating Sweetwater Sprouts
I guess that would be “Down Under” the bus?
And, Chipotle admits to violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act because it sold “adulterated” food because it was “prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health” –
This week Chipotle announced that it had been subpoenaed as part of a federal criminal investigation into food safety at its restaurants nationwide. The subpoena broadened the scope of a previously announced investigation, which focused only on a norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle restaurant in Simi Valley, California.
The investigation is being conducted by the
According to Reuters which covered a Chipotle conference call today, Chipotle received a new subpoena at the end of January, seeking information related to company-wide food safety matters dating back to January 1, 2013 and superseding an earlier subpoena that was limited to just one restaurant in Simi Valley.
As I said to Reuters: “The
Well, I made the Daily Meal’s “50 Most Powerful People in Food” again. I’m up a few spots from last year – now wedged between the Dole CEO (didn’t they just have a Listeria outbreak) and Rachael Ray. Here is the full list:
At the end of 2012 the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) formerly run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ended. Because of produce industry pressure Obama killed a food safety program started by Bush.
Here is how the MDP worked. Public health officials pulled samples of Tomatoes (cherry, round, roma), Cantaloupe, Lettuce (leaf, romaine, cut, and
I spent a month and a half in Australia a few years ago doing several food safety speeches. Given the number of things that can kill you “down under,” I was left a bit perplexed why they even cared about safe food. Food safety aside, however, there were more than a few phases that I
Bill Marler is the most prominent food-safety lawyer in the US. He has represented victims in nearly every food-borne illness outbreak in the US in the last 20 years, including the recent ones at Costco and Chipotle. He knows just how scary these illnesses are. Shockingly, every year, foodborne bugs sicken 48
