• February 02, 2012
  "FDA finds low levels of fungicide in orange juice set for sale in US, but no recalls planned"
  "The Food and Drug Administration says it has confirmed low levels of an illegal fungicide in orange juice samples taken from Florida manufacturers."

• January 31, 2012
  "F.D.A. Seeks to Shut Cheese Factory in Queens"
  "The Food and Drug Administration is trying to shutter permanently a cheese factory in Queens whose owners failed to clean up the plant after a potentially deadly bacteria was discovered on more than one occasion, according to the government."

• January 24, 2012
  Editorial: Food safety auditors too tied to industry
  "The system has an inherent conflict of interest: While retailers generally require audits before buying from a supplier, the suppliers often hire and pay the auditors who evaluate them. It's like authors hiring their own book reviewers."

• January 24, 2012
  Opposing view: Food safety is more than about audits
  "Food safety has always been the highest priority for the people who grow, ship and sell our nation's fresh fruits and vegetables. Recognizing there is no one solution, we take a holistic approach to food safety, constantly strengthening best practices, identifying knowledge gaps, creating new guidance on growing, handling and processing, and developing new "field to fork" training programs."

• January 13, 2012
  "Tainted juice episode calls FDA capabilities into question"
  "The Food and Drug Administration is holding all orange juice being imported into the United States at the border while it tests for contamination with a fungus-killing chemical. The episode is raising questions about the ability of the overstretched agency to protect the safety of the U.S. food system, critics say."

• January 12, 2012
  "FDA: Fungicide In Orange Juice Is Not A Health Risk"
  "The Food and Drug Administration is stepping up testing of orange juice after finding traces of a chemical fungicide that is not approved for use in the United States. Regulators are holding 13 shipments of imported juice at ports until tests are completed. Even so, officials say the fungicide residue does not present a public health threat."

• January 11, 2012
  "Produce tied to a third of major outbreaks in 2011"
  "There were 16 significant or unusual multistate outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. in 2011, with five of them involving fresh produce, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual year in review."

• January 10, 2012
  "Cantaloupe processor largely ignored FDA guidelines, probe finds"
  "A listeria outbreak that killed 30 people and sickened 146 others might have been avoided if a Colorado cantaloupe processor had followed U.S. guidelines and washed the fruit in chlorinated water, a congressional investigation found."

• December 22, 2011
  "New law will boost food safety controls"
  Consumer groups are hoping a new federal law will help shield the food chain from contaminants like the recent E. coli outbreak that sickened 60 people, including 23 in St. Louis County, and prompted a lawsuit.

• December 21, 2011
  "Tiny listeria survivor comes home for Christmas"
  "The premature girl from Fishers, Ind., is one of the tiniest victims of last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe, which sickened 146 people, including 30 who died."

• November 23, 2011
  Editorial: "Learning from listeria outbreak"
  "A probe of conditions at Colorado's Jensen Farms could offer important lessons on U.S. food safety."

• November 18, 2011
  Consumer Federation of America Praises House-Senate Conferees for Increased Funding for FDA
  "Congress' decision to increase appropriations for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by $39 million provides an important down payment toward the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which was enacted in January."

• November 11, 2011
  Editorial: "Listeria outbreak cries for changes, not hysteria"
  "The cantaloupe-caused outbreak of listeria created a tragedy for those infected by the bacteria and for their families. As of the end of last month, the death toll had risen to 28, the number of reported illnesses had climbed to 133, and one infected woman miscarried."

• October 27, 2011
  Editorial: "Tainted fruit"
  Unsanitary conditions at a Colorado processing plant led to the first U.S. case of listeria spreading via whole fruit.

• October 19, 2011
  Focus On: Food Import Safety
  In this issue brief, the Pew Health Group and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) address the safety of food imports and how the exponential growth of these imports underscores the need to fully fund the food safety activities of the FDA.

• October 18, 2011
  Editorial: "Fully fund food safety"
  "Among the hazards that face Americans each day, eating cantaloupe is low on the list for anyone who isn't allergic to it. Yet 23 people across the country died recently, and hundreds of others were sickened from eating cantaloupes contaminated by listeria."

• October 14, 2011
  Editorial: "Invest in what we eat"
  "Cantaloupe is the latest food contamination scare for American consumers. With at least 23 deaths from listeria linked to Colorado cantaloupes, it is the deadliest U.S. outbreak of foodborne illness in a quarter-century."

• September 30, 2011
  Editorial: "Lessons of the Listeria Outbreak"
  "The deaths caused by listeria bacteria on cantaloupe is a warning that both the food industry and the government need to do more to protect the public."

• September 16, 2011
  Op-Ed: "Killing jobs and making us sick"
  Funding for the new food safety law remains in jeopardy.

• September 04, 2011
  Op-Ed: "Congress must maintain funding for food safety"
  Congress needs to restore funding to the Food and Drug Administration so it can carry out the new food safety law.

• June 08, 2011
  "A U.S. response to the European E. coli outbreak"
  Barbara Kowalcyk, director of food safety for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention, is traveling in Europe during a severe foodborne illness outbreak.

• May 18, 2011
  Voters nationwide support funding to carry out the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
  Americans show support for more inspections, better oversight of imports.

• May 18, 2011
  Poll Finds Most Americans Favor Increased Funding for Stronger Food Safety Oversight
  Among likely voters surveyed across the nation, 66 percent support additional funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out new responsibilities related to food safety, according to a Pew-commissioned poll.

• May 18, 2011
  Poll Finds Kentucky Voters Strongly in Favor of New Food Safety Oversight
  Kentucky voters overwhelmingly support new authorities the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has over food safety ... according to a Pew-commissioned poll by the bipartisan team of Hart Research and American Viewpoint.

• May 18, 2011
  Kentucky's 5th District Favors More Food Safety Funding
  Among likely voters surveyed in Kentucky's 5th congressional district, almost seven in 10 say having new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food safety measures would be worth a one-to-three percent increase in the cost of food.

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