Food Safety
Posted February 19th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
Antibiotics are currently used widely and irresponsibly in raising farm animals. These antibiotics are meant for treating humans and this use in animals entering the food chain breeds antibiotic resistant bacteria that make people sick, and are much harder to recover from. We have been aware for quite sometime that this happens. Fifteen years ago, [...]
Posted February 15th, 2010 by Ana Joanes
This is my first blog for Mom’s Rising and so I thought I’d start by introducing myself. I’m the 35-year-old mother of Maayan who just turned 6 months. In addition to being a new mom, I’m a documentary filmmaker. FRESH, the documentary that I completed last year, celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and business people across [...]
Posted February 11th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
Imagine the perfect Valentine’s Day dinner…you and your sweetheart surrounded by hearts, flowers, music and romance at the fanciest restaurant in the city. You’re eating a decadent beef dinner, complete with dessert and wine. It’s the perfect night with the one you love—until you realize you might be paying with your health as well as [...]
Posted February 4th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
There has been a lot of food safety news and food safety talk recently, but very little meaningful action has taken place to protect consumers. Awareness of food safety is important and we appreciate it, but if no action takes place then its value is lost. Recently, we wrote about the anniversary of the PCA [...]
Posted January 28th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
S.T.O.P.—Safe Tables Our Priority extends our congratulations to Dr. Elisabeth Hagen on her nomination for the position of Undersecretary for Food Safety. Dr. Hagen has hands on experience working for the United State’s Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in addition to being board-certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. She [...]
Posted January 14th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
This week is the one year anniversary of the PCA outbreak when Salmonella- contaminated peanut products caused a major, multi-state foodborne-illness outbreak — an outbreak that occurred as a result of outdated and ineffective regulation and oversight by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Nine people died, over 700 were sickened, and close to 3900 [...]
Posted December 21st, 2009 by Donna Rosenbaum
Here is the round up for this week. A lot of interesting articles and concern for food safety, which is good. Remember, to receive articles and food safety information and recalls sign up for our S.T.O.P. E-alerts. Have a great weekend! 26,500 school cafeterias lack required inspections USA Today article with more coverage on the un-safe [...]
Posted December 8th, 2009 by Kathleen Chrismer
Legislation that will improve the nation’s food safety is poised for a vote in the Senate, but it is up to Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) to bring it to the floor for a vote. More than three years ago, my daughter Rylee ate a spinach salad contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. She spent one [...]
Posted December 4th, 2009 by Donna Rosenbaum
I hope you all had a good week. We’ve been hustling and bustling over here at S.T.O.P. but we still wanted to give you a heads up on the interesting stories regarding food safety this week. Here are some articles and blog posts that caught our attention. Remember to sign up for our free S.T.O.P. [...]
Posted December 3rd, 2009 by Donna Rosenbaum
We have been very busy these past few weeks at S.T.O.P.- traveling, fund raising, educating and advocating- all in order to help protect our nation’s food supply. In spite of all this activity, I never forget why I do this: to prevent people getting sick from devastating foodborne illnesses that damage lives forever. I do [...]
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