Managing Editor Coral Beach is a print journalist with more than 35 years experience as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers, trade publications and freelance clients including the Kansas City Star and Independence Examiner.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forcing 200 Food Safety and Inspection Service employees to move from Washington D.C. to locations in Iowa, Georgia and Colorado.
The reorganization
Local media in South Bend, IN, are reporting that almost two dozen inmates at a county jail are part of a Salmonella outbreak.
The 23 inmates at St. Joseph County
Public health officials say cross contamination in a restaurant was responsible for a Salmonella outbreak that sickened a possible 86 people.
The Piper Arms restaurant in Stone Creek, Ontario, Canada,
“Notably, the very information FDA is constrained from sharing often originates with state agencies that gathered and first provided it to FDA” -- Steven Mandernach, executive director of AFDO
A year after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. encouraged food companies to voluntarily phase out their use of synthetic dyes, little action has been taken.
According
Federal law allows food companies to use chemicals designated as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) without having them subject to review by the Food and Drug Administration. The New York law would help close that loophole.
Researchers are studying the impact nanoplastics have on Salmonella and have found they cause the pathogen to become more virulent.
The researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are particularly
