Posts Tagged ‘food safety’

Obama Nominates New Undersecretary for Food Safety

January 25, 2010 From the Obama Foodorama blog: “President Obama today announced his intent to nominate Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Under Secretary for Food Safety. Hagen will serve with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.” h/t @obamafoodorama Go to Original Post…

Michael R. Taylor, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods

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 leadership [...]

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 [...]

Paul Roberts: The End of Food, part 2 (video)

Part 2. Journalist and author, Paul Roberts continues his argument that developing an alternative food system will not be quick, nor will it be easy to accomplish. It will require substantial support from the government in order to develop and take hold, and require a systematic approach to creating holistic solutions. Roberts points out, risk [...]

Paul Roberts: The End of Food

Part 1. Paul Roberts, veteran print journalist, and author of The End of Food, and The End of Oil, speaks at the first ever, Organicology conference, in Portland, Oregon. The story he tells here is a cautionary tale. Modern science has created the industrial agriculture revolution, producing enormous benefits for society. Though over time, many [...]