USDA-FDA joint statement on produce safety
Yesterday, the USDA and FDA released a joint statement on their intent to coordinate efforts to achieve better produce safety. See Salinas Valley, Leafy Green...
2006 Spinach E. coli Outbreak Revisited
The 2000 movie called “The Perfect Storm” loosely chronicled the destruction of an Atlantic nor’easter that formed due to the random convergence of several destructive...
Carrot Producer Sues Sheep Farmer Over E. coli Concerns
Grimmway Enterprises, Inc., a carrot producer in Bakersfield, California is suing a neighboring sheep farmer afer the sheep entered Grimmway's property. The sheep grazed on Grimmway...
Produce E. coli Problems of a Different Variety
Most of the time when we're writing about, reading about, or representing people for illnesses suffered in an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak related to produce,...
Continued Proliferation of Organic Farms in U.S.
In this last Sunday's New York Times, there was a fascinating set of maps that showed the geographic location of organic farms across the United...
Mandatory safety rules best for produce industry
The San Jose Mercury News reports that Californians shouldn't be surprised that the federal Food and Drug Administration is essentially abdicating its responsibility to help...
Eat your vegetables -- at your own risk
SouthCoastToday.com reports that vegetables are nearly as dangerous as under-cooked meat when it comes to transmitting deadly food illnesses like E. coli, salmonella and hepatitis,...
FDA Issues Advice to Consumers to Reduce Risk of Foodborne Illness from Fresh Produce
As the FDA investigates an outbreak of illnesses that may be related to Salmonella typhimurium bacteria in produce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is...
Washing your Fruits and Vegetables???
A quick Q & A from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the effectiveness of washing your fruits and vegetables to prevent food poisoning. ...
Produce Safety
This is a Power Point (in pdf) about how the spinach E. coli outbreak is only part of a larger problem of safe produce....
