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The New York Times has an interesting story about how food manufacturers are starting to put responsibility for food safety into the hands of their customers.
For instance, the story says, after a salmonella outbreak was linked to frozen pot pies, ConAgra changed the instructions on the packaging to include testing with a thermometer to ensure [...]

While much is being made of food production safety, the New York Times is reporting that the methods of tracking people who suffer food-borne illnesses varies by state. To further complicate matters, 3,000 different agencies (at the federal, state and municipal level) have a hand in the process, and some are more thorough than [...]

President Barack Obama announced additional nominees for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday.

McWilliams wrote about a recent study about exposure to potentially dangerous bacteria. The study found higher rates of salmonella and other pathogens in free-range pigs than in conventionally-raised pigs.

A recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found evidence that America’s food safety system has not improved during the last three years, according to today’s New York Times, which also noted that the system had previously enjoyed several decades of improvement.