Over the weekend we came out with a Special Announcement entitled, FDA Expands List of Mexican States Not Associated With Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak, and we
Producing this Perishable Pundit is a lot of work and much of it is thankless. We try to give clear-headed assessments of issues and events
After listening to last week’s press conferences by the FDA and CDC, three questions came to mind: 1) Why does the FDA establish policies that
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
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
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
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
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,
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
