Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak
Opinion The last few weeks have sounded remarkably familiar to Spring 2020 when we faced a nationwide (and Canada) Salmonella outbreak linked to California grown onions. We are now facing a similar...
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Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019...
Opinion If the FDA, CDC, Jimmy John’s corporate officials, and the seed supplier (ISS) had gone public in 2019, would 51 have been sickened in 2020? Here is the 2020 summary: When the CDC declared the...
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Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate...
Opinion The Camden County Health Department in New Jersey has been notified by a health care provider that a food handler employed at a Starbucks at 1490 Blackwood Clementon Road in Gloucester Township...
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Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again
Opinion In 2011 I wrote: Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press...
View ArticleUSDA, Salmonella, and the Cowardly Lion: A profile in the lack of courage
OPINION In an article that will soon be published in the Seattle Law Review, I take a look at food safety through the lens of the “pink slime” controversy and question whether the lack of real...
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Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?
Opinion HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA. Although yesterday’s announcement (FDA Proposes Changes to Food Safety...
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Publisher’s Platform: Enoki mushroom recall a reminder of 2020 deadly...
– Opinion – The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) late Saturday told consumers not to eat the following brand of fresh enoki mushrooms after a sample tested positive for...
View ArticleFDA steps up to better investigate foodborne illness outbreaks and find root...
– Opinion – Editor’s note: The following is attributed to Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, and Stic Harris, D.V.M. director of the FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak...
View ArticleToo many people are still getting sick from foodborne illness; FDA has a plan...
– Opinion – Editor’s note: Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response Foodborne outbreaks can affect all of us, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is at the forefront of...
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What restaurants and CDC can do to prevent hepatitis A outbreaks
Opinion As of Nov. 9, 2021, health officials in Roanoke, Virginia, confirmed a total of 50 primary cases and two secondary cases of hepatitis A linked to a hepatitis A positive food service employee...
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