One wonders if the FDA is aware of how much its rhetoric has diverged from its practice. On a recent press call, Dr. David Acheson,
The other day, we did a piece entitled, Some Advice For CDC And FDA. In the article we basically raised two points. First, that FDA
A hat tip to Dan Cohen of Maccabee Seed Co. for sending along a USA Today article by Elizabeth Weise that we think is a
As one looks at the numbers, one wonders if this is actually a single outbreak. Right from the beginning, there was something curious about this
We’ve run a series of pieces detailing the struggle of Mexican tomato growers to get the same treatment Florida has… an “exemption” for those parts
It is no surprise, but in a recent conference call Dr. David Acheson, M.D., FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Foods, finally fessed up to the way
Perhaps our biggest Pundit Peeve with this whole Salmonella Saintpaul/Tomato problem has been the lack of clarity with which CDC and FDA chooses to communicate
If you listen to the pronouncements of the FDA, you see them as heroes searching with great difficulty to trace back the Salmonella outbreak on
The FDA and CDC have held a series of conference calls and press conferences during the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak and most are rather predictable. Yet
