January 14, 2010 This from the FDA newsroom:
“Michael R. Taylor, J.D., was named Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on Jan. 13, 2010. He is the first individual to hold the position, which was created along with a new Office of Foods in August 2009 to elevate the [...]
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Michael R. Taylor, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods
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MRSA: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Pigs, and Human Illness
March 27, 2009
The Use of antibiotics in livestock and the possible connections to the emergence of a super bug?
You may have read, that in 2005, there were 18,000 known deaths in the US that resulted from a type of Staph bacteria, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), pronounced mer-sa. MRSA (Staph) is resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics, [...]
Posted in Food Conversations Also tagged bacteria, food born illness, food safety, Fred Gerendasy, mrsa, mrsa netherlands, mrsa study, pig farmers, pigs, staph, swine, swine disease, tara smith 5 Comments
FDA Expands Peanut Butter Products Recall In Latest Salmonella Scare
January 30, 2009
Latest salmonella contamination outbreak underscores urgent need for restructuring of the nations food safety regulations, enforcement, and oversight authority.
In what may be the largest food scare in US history, The Food and Drug Administration, in conjunction with the Center For Disease Control, Georgia Department of Agriculture, and other State Health Agencies across the [...]
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