Mark Keating

Produce Safety and Preventive Controls: FDA To Lay Down Law on Food Pathogens

Part 3: In my previous post, I skimmed the surface of the massive regulations which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …

In my previous post, I sketched the enormous stakes involved as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) re-writes federal food …

Even a quick perusal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current proposal to improve the safety of our nation’s fruit …

Although the principles and practices of organic agriculture stretch back thousands of years, the process of organic certification …

For better and for worse, the popular understanding of organic agriculture in America is inseparable from the environmental and …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 11-conclusion “What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been!” Nov 19, 2012. I couldn’t …

The History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 10 Oct 22, 2012. Last week, our extended look at the history of organic …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 9 Oct 15, 2012. Part 9: Demand for organic foods during the early years of the …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 8 (Oct 8, 2012) Back in July 2012, the New York Times published an article entitled …

It’s hard to conceptualize the speed with which our capacity to unlock the genomes of living creatures and study the DNA …