Something called the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission last week held a hearing on “Chinese Seafood: Safety and Trade Issues.”
The big talker was Don Kraemer from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He is deputy director in the Office of Food Safety.
Kraemer went into
The Institute for Food Laws & Regulations (IFLR) at Michigan State University will present a Food Labeling Workshop on July 23-24, 2008, at The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development adjacent to the MSU campus.
This workshop is designed for food industry personnel and regulatory officials who are responsible for reviewing food labels and
The CDC estimates that 76 million foodborne illness, or food poisoning, cases occur in the United States every year, which means that one in four Americans contracts a foodborne illness annually after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Campylobacter, Shigella, Norovirus, and Listeria. Approximately 325,000 people are hospitalized
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that there is no evidence of: the relationship between food contamination and hand-washing; nor is there any risk to the public if a restaurant employee’s hand-washing is limited (or non-existent) and no reason for concern about other employees being adversely affected.
So maybe if your planning a vacation trip or convention in
The Centers on Disease Control & Prevention today (4/10/08) held a telephone press conference to mark the release of "Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food – 10 States, United States, 2007" which is also being published in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Dr. Robert Tauxe,
The top health official for Colorado’s El Paso County, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Northern Command, and the Northern American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), just acknowledged local restaurants could be unsafe.
"We’ve got a large increase in the number of complaints that are coming to us, we really ought to be out
Every year the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Diary Promotion Program sponsor 
the "butter sculpture" at the Harrisburg Farm Show. This year, the buttery likenesses of Benjamin Franklin and the Liberty Bell were big hits. At the end of the show, they were converted into high quality biodiesel.
Butter would become a whole lot more