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IAFP attendees urged to ‘think big’ to tackle challenges
Caroline Smith DeWaal today told IAFP delegates to think big when tackling challenges of the 21st century as she opened the virtual event. The deputy director of EatSafe (Evidence and Action Towards...
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FDA to Update Mercury in Seafood Guidance for Pregnant Women
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is responding to a lawsuit concerning the levels of mercury in seafood by updating its guidance for pregnant women and young children. “It’s an advisory, not an...
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McDonald’s Plans to Phase Out Chicken Fed Medically Important Antibiotics
Fast-food giant McDonald’s announced Wednesday that, within two years, all of the chicken served at its 14,000 U.S. restaurants will come from farms which raised the birds without medically important...
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A Look Back at Food Safety During Obama’s First Six Years
Since the Obama administration took over the executive branch more than six years ago, foodborne illnesses from meat, poultry and eggs — products regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture — has...
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Report: Fewer Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Being Reported or Solved Today
States are reporting and solving fewer foodborne illness outbreaks compared to 10 years ago, according to a new report by the nonprofit consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)....
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DeWaal Leaves CSPI for FDA Post
Caroline Smith DeWaal has left the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) for a new position at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Her last day at CSPI was Thursday. DeWaal, who served...
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The Prevalence of Foodborne Illness
Days ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its most recent yearly summary of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States. The summary covered the year 2013, and...
View ArticleCulture drives many things, but how does it impact food safety?
PHOENIX — One topic flowed as an undercurrent this afternoon even though it wasn’t on the session agenda for a group of panelists at the 2021 Conference of the International Association for Food...
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Food safety experts give recommendations to panel charged with reviewing FDA
Yesterday and today in Washington, D.C., the Reagan-Udall Foundation is facilitating a public meeting of its Independent Expert Panel on food. The independent expert panel has been charged with...
View Article30 years of food safety standouts
Editor’s note: This column and profiles of the 16 food safety champions (four not pictured above) was originally published by Quality Assurance magazine. It is reprinted here with permission. To read...
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Q&A With Caroline Smith DeWaal
PART I: On the status of Senate food safety bill, the engagement between consumer and small/sustainable agriculture groups, and President Obama’s food safety education: A conversation with CSPI’s...
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Q&A With Caroline Smith DeWaal, Part II
PART II: On the food safety policy outlook for 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expansion overseas, and the Reportable Food Registry’s potential: A conversation with CSPI’s Caroline Smith...
View ArticleMore Calls for Senate to Act on Food Safety
Beltway insiders are hearing more calls to pass the FDA food safety reform bill pending in the Senate. This week, The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, featured several Op-Eds which highlighted the...
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Fewer People May Be Getting Sick from Contaminated Food
The best of the data crunchers are saying it’s a whole lot safer to eat food in America now than it was at the beginning of the last decade. But you still may want to be careful if you’re dining out at...
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