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On its 5th birthday, you’ll see some familiar faces at the party: bloggers who’ve been on our list in years past.
But 2011 also brought along a lot of newcomers, and we’re delighted that so many RSVP’d our invitation to nominate their favorites. We received more than 1,300 Blawg Amici
From the L.L.M. class at University of Arkansas School of Law
This past week, we were pleased to welcome our distinguished visiting professor, Bill Marler for the condensed course that he teaches on Food Safety Litigation. The first two hours of his class were conducted as a public forum, with good attendance from the law
An accomplished attorney and national food safety expert, William Marler, will present “How the Food Safety Modernization Act Came About: Food Safety and Forces of Change” at 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in room 339 of the Leflar Law Center. The presentation is free and open to the public, and is approved for 1.5 hours
It was reported this week that Daxing District People’s Court of China convicted Zhao Lianhai for disturbing the social order during the tainted-milk scandal in 2008, sentencing him to two-and-a-half years in prison. Zhao’s own four-year-old son became sick after consuming milk-containing melamine, which is used in plastics and fertilizer production. In 2008, melamine-tainted milk
The Obama Administration’s announcement that ground beef contaminated with any of six additional disease-causing strains of E. coli bacteria is adulterated and must be removed from the market may be the biggest change in meat and poultry safety in the last fifteen years. It is only the second time that the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Foodborne agents cause an estimated 48 million illnesses annually in the United States, including 9.4 million illnesses from known pathogens (1,2). CDC collects data on foodborne disease outbreaks submitted from all states and territories through the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System. During 2008, the most recent year for which data are finalized, 1,034 foodborne disease outbreaks
Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal
August 31, 2011
Most responsible food companies would be horrified to learn that customers who purchased their products became sickened with Salmonella. But after 20 people in 10 states fell ill after purchasing Del Monte cantaloupes traced back to one particular farm in Guatemala, Del Monte
At least 35 players and several coaches from the Illinois State football team became ill with apparent food poisoning. The illnesses caused many of the players to miss practice. In addition, it seems that whatever caused the players to become ill has spread to other individuals on Illinois State’s campus.
According to a report
Here is a sample platter of the reviews on Poisoned that have come out in the last three months.
“He also gives balanced treatment to the fast-food chain’s executives — men who could easily be vilified for the oversights that led to the tragedy — for their goal to set new industry standards
Best-selling author Jeff Benedict this year released Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak that Changed the Way Americans Eat, which chronicles the history-making 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak that introduced the nation to a deadly foodborne pathogen: E. coli O157:H7. The book follows victims, corporate executives, defense