Raw Nerves Over Raw Milk

By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The big guys in the dairy industry, The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), have their long knives out for rural dairy farmers who sell raw milk locally. We needn’t be surprised. We’re seeing the convergence of two social trends: a growing concern among people [...]

Posted on October 17th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, FDA, Food Safety | 2 Comments »

Food Safety Overhaul Finally Cooking

By Matt L. Barron   Sickly spinach. Salmonella-tainted peanut butter. E. coli-burgers. It is enough to make Upton Sinclair reach for a sickbag. Sinclair, whose 1906 muckraking book The Jungle, exposed the gross and unsanitary conditions of Chicago’s meat packing plants and helped pass the Pure Food & Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act, might [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: FDA, Food, Food Safety, Obama, USDA, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »