Early in her tenure as the USDA’s Undersecretary for Food Safety, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen said she wanted to prevent foodborne illnesses, not just react to them. And she continues to repeat those words. It is her mantra, so to speak. But she is not just talking like so many in DC make a living doing. She is taking actions that will help prevent unnecessary illnesses.

Food safety bosses are planning a major hygiene blitz on poultry farms in a bid to cut levels of a nasty food-poisoning bug found in chickens. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) hopes to reduce cases of the campylobacter bacteria by visiting chicken farms around the country and introducing new health initiatives.

In 1996, California strawberry growers were wrongly fingered as the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened over 1,000 people across North America; the culprit was Guatemalan raspberries.

I like rock and roll. I like ribs. Rock 'n Ribs in Campbell MO seems like a pretty great place to get your fingers sticky and listen to cover bands play songs from Sticky Fingers. Spring signifies the start of festival season when tourism dollars pump into towns; the local kids will drink underage; and, hopefully no one gets sick from foodborne illness.