Late in the evening on July 15, 2008, we received a nice note from Adela Ramos: I work for Senator Tom Harkin on the Senate
Investigators from the Navajo Nation’s Bio-Terrorism Preparedness Program (BTPP) in New Mexico are going back into the field to re-interview both “cases” (people who fell
We’ve run a number of pieces in which we have speculated on the likely cause for this Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. One of the possibilities we
We’ve run many pieces on irradiation, including one specifically on tomatoes, entitled Irradiation Holds Promise For Tomato Pathogen Reduction, which featured an interview with Dr.
It was simultaneously a moment of poignancy and good sense when during United’s conference call held to update its members and solicit input and ideas
United came out with an announcement that it will hold an FDA Town Hall Meeting at FDA headquarters during its September Washington Public Policy Conference:
The FDA and CDC are in control right now. With letters from the Florida Tomato Exchange and especially the one from Senator Tom Harkin, the
Although the FDA has had any number of experts present at the various conference calls it has conducted, it has yet to include an ethicist.
One useful thing to know in these outbreaks is how many people actually get sick and to what degree they get sick. The CDC has
Over the July 4th weekend, news broke on the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that we thought sufficiently important to give up some of our holiday and
