Cup Cake Truck Stars, StrEat Chefs Quits
A starring role for food trucks in Denver’s mayoral campaign has not prevented them from closing the show 30 miles up the road at Boulder. In the campaign for mayor, the Denver Cup Cake truck has...
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Many Eager to Use Nano in Food, But Few Admit It
NEW ORLEANS — More than 15,000 food scientists, chefs, recipe developers and purveyors of spices, flavorings and additives met here last week to examine the newest innovations in the cook’s pot and on...
View ArticleUSDA to Hold Pre-Harvest Food Safety Summit
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold a public summit on pre-harvest food safety on November 9 in Washington, DC, Under Secretary of Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen said Wednesday. “We’re not...
View ArticleMaine’s Local Food Ordinances Tested
On November 3, the state of Maine filed a lawsuit against raw milk producer Dan Brown for allegedly selling raw milk without a license and for not labeling the raw milk as unpasteurized. The complaint...
View ArticleBalancing the Scales: Food ‘Sovereignty’ and Food Safety
The movement to shift control of food systems to local governments and local communities, sometimes referred to as “food sovereignty,” has gained increased notoriety with the recent lawsuit filed...
View ArticleTop Food Safety Stories of 2011: No. 10
From Washington to Maine with numerous stops in between, the food “sovereignty” movement emerged as the 10th most important food safety story of 2011. With many variations, the movement involved...
View ArticlePublisher’s Platform: Department of Food?
In 2009 I was asked by the editors of the New York Times to join in a discussion at “Room For Debate” about a single food-safety agency and to post a 300- to 400-word position statement on that issue....
View ArticleSheriffs Who Won’t Be “Milk Police” Gather in Vegas
County sheriffs and federal officials bickering over land, guns and water policies are as old as the West, but the Constitutional Sheriffs Convention, underway for the past three days in Las Vegas, has...
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Dramatic Drop in U.S. Trans Fat Levels
Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates blood levels of trans fatty acids in U.S. white adults dropped by 58 percent from 2000 to 2009 — a decrease being hailed as huge...
View ArticleNot Much Raw Milk Regulation Change Expected in 2012
In an election year when only 39 state legislative bodies are meeting in regular sessions, with most of those entering their second halves and no special sessions currently underway, there will likely...
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Letter From The Editor: Reform Anyone?
I use to tell people I was translator because I earned a living taking the intricacies of regulatory systems and explaining how to meet those requirements to normal business people. I first developed...
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China Releases Five Year Food Safety Plan
In another attempt to calm consumer fears, China released a five-year plan last week to upgrade its food safety regulations. According to the government, the new plan by the country’s Ministry of...
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Mandatory Pig Traceability Coming Soon to Canada
Traceability is soon going to be a requirement for pigs raised for slaughter in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has written new regulations designed to require pork producers to identify...
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Cow Share Agreements Will Start Raw Milk Flow in Wyoming
Regulations that will likely result in more people getting sick are the regulations most people want, says Dean Finkenbinder, consumer health services manager for Wyoming’s Agriculture Department. He...
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FDA’s New Posture Is Promising, Not Pathetic
This article was co-authored by David Plunkett. Both Klein and Plunkett work on food safety issues at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. As stakeholders begin wading in to the proposed food...
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The GRAS Process: How Companies Legally Add Ingredients to Food
Do you ever wonder how controversial ingredients end up in your food in the first place? For instance, why are energy drink companies allowed to add novel ingredients such as botanical extracts to...
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Letter From the Editor: Time to Call Your Members of Congress
One of the surprises of my life is how much of my time has been spent on various regulatory systems. I fondly remember all my political science professors on such topics as constitutional law, state...
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IAFP 2016 — Feds channel The Stones: You can’t always get what you want
ST. LOUIS — Neither of the top U.S. food cops on stage here had the moves of Mick Jagger, but they borrowed the sentiment from one of The Stones’ greatest hits when they summed up federal progress on...
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Clean meat staking its claim amid regulatory uncertainty
As the world’s population balloons, agriculture and science have converged to create sustainable, innovative solutions to food production. The fruits of this “Ag Tech” evolution includes groundbreaking...
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Don’t wait — Add ‘The Poison Squad’ by Deborah Blum to your reading list
Book Review “Regulation is bad for business.” It’s an all-too-common refrain, but not exclusively a modern one. Most people, when asked what they know about the origin of the U.S. Food, Drug and...
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