In a little ironic twist, it is the Committee on Energy and Commerce — chaired by Representative John D. Dingell (D-MI) — and, specifically, its
The industry has pretty much come to the conclusion that something must be done. We simply can no longer allow situations in which the FDA
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) held a press conference issuing a statement headlined as
The bottom line is that the more the CDC and FDA speak, the more obvious it becomes that three months into this outbreak they do
Dr. David Acheson, FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Foods, made a statement during the conference on July 9, 2008, that indicates he doesn’t really understand what
Perhaps as industry anger over the progress of the investigation of Salmonella Saintpaul boils over, all of us need to remember words that Theodore Roosevelt
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
The CDC, FDA and state health departments are not making many public announcements but they are leaking information like sieves. The public announcement by CDC
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
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
