Dr. David Acheson, FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Foods, devoted a part of the Tuesday evening press conference to looking to the future and ways to
There are two important pieces of information that the CDC needs to release so we can help it make sense of this outbreak. The first
Just as we were going to press, we received sad news: I don’t know whether you’ve heard the news that Bob Backovich passed away last
As Dr. Acheson has been learning about the produce industry, we wanted to investigate the relevance of some of the points he has been discussing.
One of the great joys of doing the Pundit has been the opportunity to exchange ideas with brilliant people from across the globe. Today we
FDA and CDC have made a point that they don’t release their speculations. So, for example, neither organization will name any other item, beyond tomatoes,
Although CDC’s Dr. Griffin last Friday said, “This is a produce outbreak,” to distinguish it from a tomato outbreak, CDC’s Dr. Robert Tauxe used a
One hope for solving this problem and clarifying the cause of this outbreak came out in the FDA/CDC’s recent conference call. It was good news
Dr. Robert Tauxe, M.D., M.P.H., was representing CDC on the most recent conference call. He is both smart and knowledgeable; he has contributed additional information
It is said that every cloud has a silver lining, and if it can be said that there is an advantage to the length of
