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food safety
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Food safety initiatives will be subject of online chat
The Obama administration has created a deputy food commissioner position to coordinate safety in the case of an outbreak of…
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Toxicologists: Media gets chemical risks wrong
Writing for STATS, a research organization affiliated with George Mason University, Robert Lichter reports on a study of “how experts…
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Obama announces FDA officials, food safety plan
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced new FDA leadership and a new Food Safety Working Group in which…
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Lax oversight, complex supply chains aid outbreaks
In the wake of recent food-borne salmonella outbreaks, Justina Wang of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle found that a combination…
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HHS’s new social media team focuses on outbreak
File this one under “No sooner said than done.” Just last week, Pete Blackshaw wrote on the ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com blog that…
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Social networking could improve FDA response
Pete Blackshaw, on the ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com blog, critiques the FDA’s Web site and provides some ideas about how the FDA could…
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Topics in the news: food safety, coal ash
Some resources that could be helpful in reporting on a couple of hot topics today: Peanut butter is suspected in…