We raised this question at the recent ABA Section of Litigation Food & Supplements Second Annual Workshop as a way of commenting on emerging threads of resistance to the imposition of greater food safety-related requirements at all levels of government, but especially at the federal level.

With food truck numbers swelling nearly 50 percent in the last two years, the county needs to step up its inspection of the mobile operations rather than risk them becoming a moving source of food-borne illnesses, according to the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury.

The Food Standards Agency has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s recent scientific opinion on poultry meat inspection, which suggested that traditional poultry meat inspection may not be enough to fully address the most relevant biological hazards to public health.

Nobody questions the cunning of the norovirus. Every year in the U.S. the food-borne pathogen survives heat and chemicals and delivers stomach cramps and diarrhea to more than 20 million people, 70,000 of whom require hospitalization and 800 of whom die. Norovirus, which thrives in human stool, accounts for more than half of all food-borne illnesses.