Food ‘Safety’ Reform and the Enclosure Movement
“Healing ourselves is the essence of democratic development.” –Michael Parenti, final remarks, California State University, Channel Islands, March 11, 2004. Introduction Our nation is awakening to the...
View ArticleReport Takes Lessons from EU Food Safety Reforms
Study by The Produce Safety Project Finds U.S. Food Safety System Needs To Integrate Human Health, Animal, and Plant Pathogen Data The Produce Safety Project, a joint initiative of Georgetown...
View ArticlePublisher’s Platform: What Should Be Done
I spent most of last week in the “other Washington.” It all does make you wonder, as one Congressman quipped some time ago: “Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got E. coli?” What would happen if we...
View ArticleCanada Adopts Another Food Safety Recommendation
A 7-member Ministerial Advisory Board (MAB) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has been named by Gerry Ritz, Canada’s Agricultural Minister. Ritz said the appointments are “another step to...
View ArticleTaking the Step Toward Food Safety Reform
Improving food safety is not as easy task! But right now, we have a huge opportunity to “seize the day” and make a much-needed first step toward food safety reform! Center for Foodborne Illness...
View ArticlePublisher’s Platform: A Little Boy’s Tragic Death
Most of you likely have not followed the story of 5-year-old Mason Jones, who died of E. coli O157:H7 poisoning in 2005 after eating a school lunch. I have followed it closely, in part because over the...
View ArticleDeadly Cantaloupes: A View from the Ivory Tower
Last fall, I started teaching at Seattle University School School of Law, doing so in part to give myself more time to do scholarship (research and writing) about food, in all of its fascinating...
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