Without naming his company or town, Mr. Chris Jenkins became the first to ask USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to “strike down” Petition 23-07 from Animal Partisan last week. “I feel these requests would only add greater confusion to an industry that has become riddled with gray areas and misinterpretations due to these requests,”

— COMMENTARY — Three weeks ago, I introduced my column, “The Litigated Dish,” to answer the internet’s most frequently asked food safety questions. One particularly popular question, according to AnswerThePublic.com (a website that tracks the top Google searches), is “What are the symptoms of food poisoning?” Much like my answer to last week’s question, this

A food safety barometer in Belgium has found improvements in the country during the past decade. The purpose is to measure food safety and enable evidence-based risk management and policy decisions. It consists of 30 indicators that cover various aspects of food safety from farm to fork. It relies on data collected from the Belgian