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Working with victims of foodborne disease at S.T.O.P, I’ve heard many stories about people that just break my heart. But, the ones that hit me hardest are those involving children. The story of two triplets, Sydney and Cole,… Read More »
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After watching Food, Inc. the movie and the recent beef recalls, I have decided to be more careful about where I buy my ground beef and eat hamburgers. Even if you follow the suggested methods for food handling there still is a possibility that you can get E. coli since only even a few… Read More »
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There is a large burden of foodborne illness in the United States with approximately 76 million people falling ill every year (that’s 1in 4 Americans) from largely preventable food contamination. Fixing the problem is dependent on knowing where the problem starts and which foods from what… Read More »
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For the first time since my daughter's best friend died from E.coli O157:H7, I am finally starting to feel that we are making progress towards comprehensive FDA food safety reform. Last week the U.S. Senate held its first hearing on S.510, Senator Durbin’s bipartisan bill…
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My life changed overnight in 1992 when my then-6-year-old daughter’s best friend Lauren was the first child to die from eating a hamburger contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 in the Jack in the Box outbreak. You probably don’t know what it’s like to watch someone die from the E.… Read More »
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Pregnant women are often made
to feel like they need to spend nine months in a bubble to keep
their unborn baby safe, but this is ridiculous. UK shopper Janet
Lehain was shocked when a deli server at her local grocery
denied her request for unpasteurized cheddar
cheese. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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Over the weekend, the New
York Times served us a gripping and heart-rending tale of how tens
of thousands of cattle, millions of pounds of beef, hundreds of
miles of transport, and acres of food processing plants all came
together to produce devastating illness in one person, Stephanie
Smith. … Read More »
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A little while ago, I wrote up something about the phenomenon people are calling "pine mouth": the bizarre metallic taste people get in…
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