In The News

• Ohio farmers fretting over rules proposed for veggie, fruit safety
  Columbus Business First | 04/09/2010
  Dan Eaton
  Everyone seems to agree that reducing pathogens from fresh fruit and vegetables is a good thing, but how to accomplish that remains up to debate.
• 'A very robust conversation': Farmers, FDA discuss new food safety standards
  Tifton Gazette | 03/25/2010
  Steven Stubbs
  The Produce Safety Project held a conference Thursday at the Rural Development Center in order to get feedback from farmers abroad on new safety standards. The Food and Drug Administration will propose the new standards later this year.
• FDA is talking to farmers about food safety
  TIFTON, GA (WALB) | 03/25/2010
  Jay Polk
  Charles Hart is a farmer in Sumter County. "We grow green beans, cotton along with other items corn," he said. And like every other farmer, he wants to make sure that he sends a good product to market. Thursday, he joined dozens of other growers, farmers, government officials and academics in a meeting at the University of Georgia Conference Center.
• FDA Consults With Local Farm Over Food Safety Policies
  nbc4i.com | 03/11/2010
  The FDA is in the process of establishing nationwide produce safety standards for the growing, harvesting and packing of fresh fruit and vegetables.
• Ohio Farmers Focusing On Food Safety
  10TV | 03/11/2010
  Making the fruits and vegetables your family eats safer had farmers and agricultural leaders from around the state meeting in Columbus on Thursday.
• New threshold for food safety
  Democrate and Chronicle | 02/23/2010
  Karen Miltner Staff writer
  As far as the government is concerned, encouraging Americans to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables is a matter of public health, as consumption helps prevent chronic diseases, fight obesity and promotes general good health.
• FDA proposes produce rules
  Rochester Business Journal | 02/19/2010
  By MARY STONE
  For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration will propose requirements for fruit and vegetable growers in October
• From the farm, to the fork
  WHEC.com | 02/19/2010
  By: Ray Levato
  From farm to fork, the federal government wants to make sure the food we eat is as safe as possible.
• 3 Years After E. Coli Outbreak, Is Spinach Safer?
  Good Morning America | 11/11/2009
  By GITIKA AHUJA and DR. RICHARD BESSER
  Three years after an E. coli outbreak, thought to be linked to spinach, took three lives and left 205 people sick, "Good Morning America" discovered that while the industry instituted new safety standards to prevent bacterial contamination, there are no requirements to test salad products before they get to market.
• Commentary: From Farm to Fork
  Chattanooga Times Free Press | 12/14/2008
  When was the last time all 11 members of the Tennessee congressional delegation agreed on anything? Not that long ago: July 1, 2008. All the Tennessee lawmakers announced that day they had signed a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during the height of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, asking for a speedy determination of the source of the outbreak and a clear communication that Tennessee tomatoes were safe.
• Safety of food supply deserves higher priority
  The Tennessean | 12/13/2008
  As the year of the worst U.S. food emergencies in recent memory nears an end, Americans are still far from assured that their food supply is safe.
• FDA bungled outbreak response, report says
  The Packer | 11/20/2008
  A new report analyzing the handling of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak this summer calls on the Food and Drug Administration to establish mandatory safety standards for fresh produce and criticizes the government for its poor communications in the wake of the outbreak.
• Salmonella scare bungled, study finds
  Miami Herald | 11/16/2008
  A lack of coordination and communication between government agencies over the handling of this year's salmonella outbreak may have unfairly kept the focus on tomatoes and caused unnecessary economic harm to the industry, according to a report being released Monday by the Produce Safety Project.
• Editorial: We think: Obama and Congress need to put food safety on their agenda
  Orlando Sentinel | 11/14/2008
  There's a full plate of urgent issues awaiting Presidentelect Barack Obama and the next Congress. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' nonpartisan watchdog, listed 13 of them last week. Along with some obvious choices, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and oversight of the financial industry, the GAO included food safety.