The FDA, Food Safety, and related topics

á         The FDA website 

o    FDAÕs Science Board 

o    FDA Action Levels (how many bugs in your food, etc.—fun at parties)

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         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 

My mother let me eat raw hamburger. 

 

á         Important book: D. Michaels, Doubt is their Product, short version of argument is here. 

 

á         Defending Science, a project from GWUs School of Public Health and Heath Services.

á         Barfblog, related to KSUÕs Bites project, ÒSafe Food from Farm to Fork.Ó 

á         The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a Food Safety Page  

á         The Food Safety Project, at Georgetown U.  Check their links page. 

á         The Alliance for a Stronger FDA  and the related FDA MATTERS web page. 

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.

Favorite FDA Reports, & related items

á          Recent testimony on SB 510 by Commissioner Hamburg

á         FDA Science and Mission at Risk 

á         The Future of Drug Safety 

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)

News, Journalism

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  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..

á  The Community Alliance for Global Justice has a Food Justice Project