I have known of Mike Taylor since shortly after September 29, 1994.
As Food Safety News reported in “Looking Back: The Story Behind Banning E. Coli O157:H7,” Taylor took the podium that day in San Francisco at the American Meat Institute’s annual convention to make his first, and arguably most significant, speech as the top
Food Chemical News reports that the preventive controls proposal that FDA sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget in November 2011 would have required food companies to conduct environmental and finished product testing, maintain supplier verification programs, and track consumer complaints. But the OMB struck the requirements and those documents were recently
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April is a busy month.
Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health
April 9-10, 2013
Jack in the Box and E. coli O157:H7: The Outbreak, the Investigation and Improvements in Food Safety
I get to share the stage with Phillip Tarr, MD, Melvin E. Carnahan Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
I’m an avid reader of the Hagstrom Report. You should too. And, if you did not think the Sequester would have an impact in food safety – think again!
FSIS delivers meat inspection furlough notice to unions
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service today delivered to the National Joint Council of Food
I am somewhere in the air over Nebraska off to give another food safety speech, and my office emailed me a letter that I have been awarded the Seattle University Law School Distinguished Graduate Award. According to the letter, the award was established to honor an alumnus whose career achievements embody the mission, principles, and
I am heading to South Africa in October of this year to give a series of lectures on safe food a.k.a., “why it is a bad idea to poison your customer.” It appears that I might need to move up the timing of my trip. According to South African news:
As the horse meat
JoNel Aleccia, Staff Writer for NBC News posted an interesting article yesterday: “Horse meat in the US? Unlikely, but tests are rare.”
I have been wondering when the food fraud story going on throughout Europe surrounding passing horse meat off as beef would make it here. Putting eating pony aside, Ms. Aleccia and I discussed
I have been working my way through an early release of “Salt Sugar Fat,” and was pleased to see the New York Times Magazine devote 14 pages to an excerpt entitled “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food.” Both the article and the book are worth a serious read. It is changing the way I
