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.
On Friday, June 27, 2008 one of the most shocking press conferences of the whole Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak occurred. We felt the need to come
Q: Is there now a question that tomatoes may not actually be the incubator of the salmonella? That it might be some other type of
Jonathan Rockoff of The Baltimore Sun pushed CDC hard on an issue we have been preaching: transparency. He kept asking the same question we asked
While CDC ‘s story is surrealistic, the FDA has become positively delusional. Here is what Dr. David Acheson, MD, FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Foods, had
Another bizarre portion of the press conference… listening to Dr. David Acheson, MD, Associate Commissioner for Foods, talk about the things they learned about the
We said right from the beginning… How could three separate chains of wildly varying size in the Las Cruces, New Mexico, area all buy from
We don’t think it is a coincidence that the FDA and CDC started backtracking right after Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, a well-respected epidemiologist spoke out
There are two separate but related issues here: The first is how to structure an investigation to be more effective. Our interview with Dr. Michael
Our extensive coverage of the Salmonella Saintpaul Tomato Outbreak has brought many letters including those from organizations not at all involved with tomatoes: I, for
