UC Food Observer chooses a handful of important stories for you to read as you finish your work week. On the menu, in no particular order: Animal protection legislation is …
A bug in the system: a tale of food-borne illness(es) from The New Yorker
Food-borne illness impacts 48 million Americans each year. More than 128,000 are hospitalized, and about 3,000 die. Salmonella kills more Americans than any other food-borne pathogen. Wyl Hylton has penned …
Durbin and DeLauro call for single food safety agency
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) will introduce legislation to create a single agency to oversee the nation’s food safety, framing the issue as paramount to …