If The Industry Doesn’t Hang Together…Surely We Will All Hang Separately
July 10, 2008
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 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 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
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
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
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,
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
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.
