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Last week I spoke at the National Environmental Health Association annual convention. My talk was entitled “What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contemporary View of Food Safety.” As I told the...
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Has the nail been driven into the coffin of the conventional wisdom that grass-fed beef is safer than grain-fed beef? In 2008 I posted “Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the Holy Grail: A Literature...
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I received this email this weekend in response to an interview I gave recently about raw milk to “Food Manufacturing” online: Farm fresh? All the rage? natural food craze? certified organic is a...
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The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco. As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, “The...
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It is time to pass S. 510 BEFORE this is on the Senate Dining Room Menu: Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal for...
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Do you remember Domino’s Pizza employees Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, who made a video of Setzer, 32, putting cheese up his nose before putting it on a sandwich, passing gas on a piece of salami...
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We started Food Safety News nearly three years to the day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a nationwide E. coli O157:H7 outbreak had been traced to spinach. I had filed suit against...
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Publisher’s Platform: Should Brothers Ryan and Eric Jensen Face Criminal Charges
Will producers of Listeria-tainted cantaloupe be fined or jailed? Earlier this week Food Safety News reported that the CDC had increased the numbers of those considered to be culture-confirmed cases...
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Publisher’s Platform: MMWR – Food for Thought
Several years ago I started following the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). It used to come weekly in the mail (perhaps it still does), but it is a bit easier to see it online and it...
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I was going to take a weekend off from Publisher’s Platform. It has been a long couple of weeks of long days, and more than a few late nights, working on putting the cases together of the 22 injured...
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Publisher’s Platform: Tracking Cantaloupe Outbreaks
The Outbreak Database has come in handy to track just how often cantaloupes – and other foods – have caused problems. Here is a sample platter of outbreaks linked to cantaloupe with links to...
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Publisher’s Platform: All About Hepatitis A
In a continuing effort to keep current on those bugs that are bad for us, we have updated www.about-hepatitis.com. Exposure to the hepatitis A virus can cause an acute infection of the liver that is...
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Publisher’s Platform: Perhaps No Need for Private A.G?
This is somewhat of a reprint of an Op-ed of a few years ago. However, in light of this week’s 76-count indictment of Stewart Parnell and four others, I thought a reprint was in order. Everyone seems...
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Publisher’s Platform: McDonald’s and E. coli, 30 Years Later
A few weeks ago I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in the Box E....
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Publisher’s Platform: Townsend Farms Class Letter
I know lawyers suffer from an image problem. Most people think we spend our weekend on fancy golf courses or driving jet boats around tropical isles. I actually like driving jet boats at high speed. I...
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Publisher’s Platform: It is Time for a Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Food Safety
Food safety programs are the crazy uncles of corporate food production – everyone has one, but no one really wants to talk about it. Corporate management on average is far more interested in sales and...
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Publisher’s Platform: Will Whole Genome Sequencing Solve More Outbreaks?
“No illnesses have been reported to date.” How many times have we read a food recall notice posted on either the FDA or FSIS websites and written by the companies recalling the product who use that...
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Publisher’s Platform: Time to Discard That Wire Brush?
Internal injuries from ingestion of wire grill-cleaning bristles are well documented. In a single hospital system, 12 patients with injuries due to ingestion of wire bristles were reported between...
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Publisher’s Platform: A Reasonable Proposal for Safer Meat
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has once again proposed a law that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) the ability that it does not believe it...
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Publisher’s Platform: 75 sproutbreaks later, fresh raw sprouts still not safe
Thanks to my friends at Barfblog for keeping track of the Sproutbreaks over the last couple of decades. These outbreaks have been some of the largest and most deadly in the world. Now we are seeing two...
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