In 2009 President Obama was quoted:
“At a bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter,” the president said.
“That’s what Sasha eats for lunch,” Obama said, referring to his 7-year-old daughter. “Probably three times a week. I don’t want to worry
At Marler Clark it was a busy week taking care of consumers sickened by Salmonella-tainted cucumbers nationwide, sickened with Salmonella at Minnesota Chipotle restaurants and Norovirus at a Simi Valley Chipotle. In between we had the opportunity to weigh in with the press nationwide on some of the new food safety rules.
Imagine this: At 10:00 PM, after yet another story about Donald Trump, a foreign TV network begins airing a video taken inside a facility showing someone treating wash water in a cucumber packing house with an unknown liquid. There is a claim that this was the terrorist act that has so far sickened 341 and
In the spring of 2007, I was asked to testify before the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Commerce Committee, which was the committee tasked with modernizing our food safety system. From those hearings, which stretched from 2007 to 2009, came the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). On the Senate side of the hill, work
The would be Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today took one of the most significant steps in decades to prevent foodborne illness by finalizing the first two of seven major rules under the bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Over the last 10 years, I have been averaging about 20 speeches a year on issues surrounding food safety. The talks have taken me to most parts of the United States, as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China. However, it is always nice to be a bit closer
Food manufacturers have created dangerous production systems that are sending Americans to the hospital all too often, a new report today by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) says. Because regulators have been unable to keep up with an ever-changing industry, the civil justice system has become consumers’ most important protection against unsafe food.
Every
The power was out for several hours on Bainbridge Island on Saturday after high winds and rain. Fortunately our generator kicked in so we did not have to worry about spoiled food. However, other residences and the restaurants and grocery stores had a bit more to worry about. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Food Safety News reports that 115 people were reported sick after eating at a Chipotle restaurant in Simi Valley, CA last week.
Ventura County Public Health told Food Safety News that 98 customers and 17 employees were sickened on Aug. 18 and 19.
A number of people went to the ER, but it’s unknown if
Consumer Reports produced a report today – “How Safe Is Your Ground Beef” – and there is some bad news – some fecal contamination in nearly every sample – and there is some good news – what was found will not likely kill you.
Consumer Reports “purchased 300 packages—a total of 458 pounds (the equivalent
