The FDA, Food Safety, and
related topics
This
year IÕm studying food safety policy in the US. This web page is a collection point for the things I find
worth going back to. If you have
suggestions, please email them to me. Enjoy, but, warning: studying food safety may change the way
you behave in your kitchen, in restaurants, etc.
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FDA and other
government websites á
Essential
FDA & related reports á
Book
reviews & personal postings á
Questions
about Politics of Food Safety |
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Science
& Food Science organizations á
Interest
Groups (some overlap w/ above) á
news,
journalism, professional publications |
GOVERNMENT WEBSITES á
The FDA website o Recently created Office
of Foods o FDAÕs Science
Board o FDA Action Levels (how
many bugs in your food, etc.—fun at parties) o recent
consideration of rules
for transport of foods, for which a notice
appeared in the Federal Register
o Carl AndersonÕs Blog on FDA Stuff á
The CDCÕs Food
Safety Office website o CDC Public Health Blog (excellent) á
The governmentÕs Food Safety website á
The
PresidentÕs Food
Safety Working Group (stakeholders included) á
CongressÕ work
on S 510,
organized by OpenCongress. Here is a summary
from CRS. The S. Com. on H,E,L
and P had a hearing
and issued the chairÕs mark
in mid November of 2009. á
CongressÕ work
on HR 2749,
organized by Open Congress. Here
is a summary
from CRS. á
CongressÕ work
on HR 875,
organized by OpenCongress á
USDAÕs
Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) á
The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service works to protect US agriculture. á
The Grain
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Admin. works on marketing US agricultural products. á
The Agricultural Marketing
Service runs several commodity programs. á
Current FSIS
Recalls á
Current FDA Recalls á
The EPA did a study
of whatÕs in biosolids, which many cities now give away or sell for use
in gardens and on agriculture fields.
The UKÕs Food Standards Agency |
SCIENCE
& FOOD SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS á
Some of the best work on industrial chemicals, how we
regulate them, and how that compares to Canada and the EU REACH system, is by
Richard Denison at
Environmental Defense. á
Barfblog, related
to KSUÕs Bites project, ÒSafe Food from
Farm to Fork.Ó á
Marion Nestle, a top food
safety expert and author, has a blog with lots of useful info. á
The Pump Handle
is a blog with many public health specialists contributingÉ. á
The Rudd Center for Food
Policy & Obesity at Yale has many things, including a page on taxing
sugar drinksÉ á
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a Food Safety Page á
The Kellogg Foundation has a Food
and Society Policy program.
Their policy fellows have a blogÉ. á
The Food Safety Project, at
Georgetown U. Check their links page. á
Defending Science, a project from
GWUs
School of Public Health and Heath Services. á
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and their Agriculture and Public Health Gateway á
The Center for Food Safety at the
University of Georgia looks into many interesting topics. á
The Center for Foodborne Illness
(research and prevention) was started by two people after
someone they knew died of food poisoning. á
The folks at CIDRAP, U. Minn., have a good
bibliography
of food safety readings, a list of industry
associations, a list of academic
food safety centers, and more. á
The Food Safety Research Consortium
did a project on Prioritizing
Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Risk, website still there. á
The Human Food Project focuses
mostly on relationships between microbes and us á
Professor Daniel Carpenter, HarvardÕs
Dept. of Government, ran The FDA
Project, focusing on pharmaceutical regulation. |
FAVORITE
FDA REPORTS AND RELATED ITEMS á
See the PresidentÕs
Cancer Panel Report, from May of 2010. Here is a short commentary on it. á
Recent testimony on
SB 510 by Commissioner Hamburg á
The Grossman FDA
Report estimates that a much bigger budget is needed than is found in the
PresidentÕs proposal. á
FDA
Science and Mission at Risk á
Key
Findings from PresidentÕs Working Group
on food safety á
Federal
Oversight of Food Safety (from GAOÉ note, on p. 2, the mention
of points in FDA
Science and Mission and Risk, and careful focus of this
report—which does not touch main conclusions of FDA Science and
Mission at Risk.) á
MMWR Weekly of
April 10, 2009, which tells us Òprogress toward the national health
objectives has plateaued, suggesting that fundamental problems with bacterial
and parasitic contamination are not being resolved.Ó á
FSP
Report, Breakdown (about lessons from a 2008 Salmonella outbreak) |
INTEREST GROUPS and
Interesting Political Observers á
The Alliance for a Stronger FDA á
Carl
AndersonÕs Blog on FDA Stuff
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Steven GrossmanÕs FDA MATTERS web page. á
Marler Clark is a leading
law firm that sues companies that make people sick They publish Food
Safety News. AND, they
publish Food Poisoning Journal. á
The Pew Charitable Trusts have taken a position on food and
produce safety á
The National Family Farm Coalition
connects food safety with Ôfood sovereigntyÕ á
The National
Sustainable Agriculture Coalition published a position
paper on food safety issues.
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STOP (Safe Tables Our
Priority) is a group originally motivated to act by the 1993 E.coli
outbreaks á
The Union of
Concerned Scientists has a program on food and agriculture issues á
The Food Rights Network
is a self-appointed watchdog on recycled sewage, leader is author of a book
on the topic á
Food and Water Watch
is what it says, an interest group that tries to monitor and influence food
and water issues á
The Community Alliance for Global
Justice has a Food
Justice Project |
My mother let me eat
raw hamburger. Understanding
the PresidentÕs Cancer Panel
Report. á
Important book: D. Michaels, Doubt is their Product,
short version of argument is here.
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Several book
reviews are posted in the book review
section of Carl AndersonÕs FDA Blog á
a web page that
supported a talk at
PLU. á
A page about our exposure to chemicals,
and our response to it. I started
a politics of food safety blog,
but the others on this page were so goodÉ. |
NEWS,
JOURNALISM, PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE á
Ever wonder what is in
Ònatural flavorsÓ? See this
excellent piece in the New Yorker by Raffi Khatchadourian. á
excellent
NYT
piece on an E. coli case á
NYT has links to many stories on
their food
safety main page á
Michael PollanÕs web page has
descriptions of his books and links to many of his articles. á
A 2003 Mother
Jones piece on John Munsell, interesting guy á
A sign of how tough it is to
get the facts: See the International
Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. Check their Journal. Wow, looks scientific. Peer-reviewed, too. And yetÉ. check their sponsors. Oh, not listed, Òto be announced
soonÓ? They have been supported
by tobacco, chemical, and drug companies. Check the editor
of the journal, and the Wikipedia
page about him. Hmmm, is
this what science journals look like?
Thanks to David Michaels, Doubt is Their Product,
pp. 53-4, for this example.
Michaels did not cite the Wikipedia page. á
Defending Science (see above) posted the table of
contents, with links to articles, of the American
Journal of Public Health Supplement on Scientific Evidence and Public Policy,
Sept. 2005.. |
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