Having earlier this year postponed the organization’s annual conference, officials with the International Association for Food Protection report they hope to soon announce new dates, likely in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. The association (IAFP) officials released a statement Monday regarding this year’s conference and meeting, indicating the event would remain in Cleveland, OH, as originally scheduled. The IAFP board anticipates making a decision about the specific dates for the annual event no…

Opinion Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This specialized program for attorneys brings together those who are interested in our food system, from farm to table. As a final assignment, students are asked to write an op-ed or essay on food safety, with the best to be selected…

Opinion   “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” –TR The voice of the CDC is The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Atlanta. This week, MMWP has found the CDC’s voice by mounting if not a defense of the agency’s time-eating mistake in making a diagnosis test available for COVID-19, then an explanation of why…

To celebrate this year’s World Food Safety Day, June 7, Inside Sharing Knowledge group is hosting a special online event. The event will include interviews and workshops from some of the world’s top food safety professionals.  Nuno F. Soares, food safety expert and host of the event, said, “I have to confess; planning, developing and hosting this FREE event is also my way to honor thousands and thousands of Food Safety Professionals that haven’t stop…

Three quarters of respondents to a survey in the United Kingdom say good hygiene will be more of a factor in choosing a restaurant than before the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Results from the second COVID-19 British Foodservice Sentiment Study by The NPD Group show trust will be an important issue as foodservice operators re-open for business. Almost six out of 10 respondents said restaurants and bars are the riskiest places to be…

A Georgia woman who sold an unregistered pesticide, which she claimed protected against viruses such as COVID-19, has pleaded guilty to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Rong Sun, aka Vicky Sun, 34, of Fayetteville, GA, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge John K. Larkins III. Sentencing has been scheduled for June 29 before Judge Larkins III. “Registration under FIFRA helps ensure that pesticides sold in the U.S. work and are…