Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2013 |
''FSMA Regulations On Produce, Manufactured Food Finally Released For Public Comment'' The Food and Drug Administration released two of the five major regulations tied to the Food Safety Modernization Act for public comment on Friday, the second anniversary of the bill's passage. The newly released rules, arguably the most important two of the five, span a whopping 1,236 pages and regulate food safety protocols for produce and manufactured foods, respectively. Source: Huffington Post |
Food Safety |
| Jan 4, 2013 |
''F.D.A. Offers Sweeping Rules to Stop Food Contamination'' Sandra Eskin, director of the safe food campaign at the Pew Charitable Trusts, is interviewed by The New York Times about the new FDA rules to prevent food contamination. Source: The New York Times |
Food Safety |
| Jan 2, 2013 |
A Mother's Plea for Swifter Implementation of Food Safety Regulations An opinion editorial written by Kathleen Chrismer about the need for swift approval and implementation of new food safety regulations. Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Food Safety |
| Oct 11, 2012 |
''As Food Recalls Mount, White House Still Lingering Over New Safety Rules'' Families who've lost loved ones to foodborne illnesses have watched with alarm in recent months as producers have recalled mangoes, cantaloupe, ricotta cheese, dog food and peanut butter after people were sickened by the tainted goods. A landmark food safety law passed nearly two years ago was supposed to help curtail such outbreaks. But the Obama administration has yet to issue the final rules that will give the Food and Drug Administration more authority over food producers. Source: McClatchy Newspapers |
Food Safety |
| Sep 25, 2012 |
''Peanut Butter Recall Widens To Other Nut Butters After Salmonella Outbreak'' Late Friday, Trader Joe's announced a voluntary recall of its Salted Valencia Peanut Butter because it may have been contaminated with a rare strain of salmonella. These recalls remind us that much of our food chain is dependent on just a handful of suppliers. More consumers are affected when fewer companies supply a larger portion of the market says Sandra Eskin, project director of the food safety campaign at the Pew Health Group. Source: National Public Radio |
Food Safety |
| Sep 19, 2012 |
''Foodborne Illness Victim Becomes a Poster Child For Change'' Since the 2006 death of two-year-old Kyle Allgood, his parents have become advocates for better food safety regulations. They are currently involved in a campaign to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, a law signed by President Barack Obama in January 2011. Source: Boise Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Sep 10, 2012 |
''Front & Center: Keeping an Eye on Food Supply'' The Orlando Sentinel asked Sandy Eskin, project director of the Food Safety Campaign with the Pew Health Group, about the latest foodborne illness outbreak and the legislation in limbo drafted to avert such tragedies. Source: Orlando Sentinel |
Food Safety |
| Aug 22, 2012 |
Pew's Erik Olson Discusses Delays in Implementation of Food Safety Modernization Act Erik Olson, director of food programs at the Pew Health Group, appeared on both Federal News Radio and NPR to discuss the delay by the Office of Management and Budget in implementing draft rules for the key provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Source: Federal News Radio, NPR |
Food Safety |
| Jul 30, 2012 |
''Foodborne Illnesses Not Diminishing, CDC Finds'' "Little progress has been made in combating many types of food-borne illnesses in recent years, according to new federal data, an outcome that food safety advocates say underscores the need to put into place the landmark food-safety bill signed by President Obama more than a year ago." Source: The Washington Post |
Food Safety |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
''Illinois Second-Most Affected State From Foodborne Illness'' In January 2011, President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was supposed to begin a total overhaul of the FDA. Unfortunately, according to the Pew Health Center, the Consumers Union and other food safety organizations, the administration has not issued the necessary regulations to implement the law. As a result, outbreaks continue and Illinois is among the worst hit. Source: Chicagoist |
Food Safety |
| Jul 19, 2012 |
''Chefs Learn Advocacy Lessons'' Sixteen chefs gathered earlier this month at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn. for the James Beard Foundation's Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change, a two-day program, jointly sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that focused on coaching chefs on how to become stronger advocates for the causes which matter to them, and exposing them to the resources at their disposal. Source: Seattle Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Jul 16, 2012 |
''Delays in new food-safety regulations cause frustration'' Seventeen months after President Obama signed a law hailed as a massive overhaul of food safety, major portions have yet to be implemented. Erik Olson, director of food programs with the Pew Health Group, remarks, "What's important is that these new protections of our food supply be put into place as soon as possible to protect all Americans from getting sick from contaminated food. Source: USA Today |
Food Safety |
| May 9, 2012 |
''Government urged to fight fat at school'' "A coalition of health advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the government to put more resources into school-based efforts to improve health and fight obesity among youth. The recommendations by the Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health were backed by more than 70 groups including the American Cancer Society and the National Education Association." Source: CNBC |
Food Safety |
| Oct 14, 2011 |
''FDA faulted over state inspections'' "The Food and Drug Administration is relying more often on states to inspect food plants but is failing to properly monitor those state inspections or follow through on their findings, the Department of Health and Human Services watchdog has concluded." Source: The Washington Post |
Food Safety |
| Aug 20, 2010 |
''Second Farm Recalls Ten Million Eggs'' ''A second Iowa farm, which ships to stores in 14 states, is recalling at least 10 million eggs that are possibly tainted with salmonella.''
Source: CBS News |
Food Safety |
| Jul 16, 2010 |
''Guidelines Issued For Antibiotic Use in Animals'' CBS Evening News with Katie Couric investigates the use of antibiotics on industrial farms, featuring Pew Health Group’s managing director, Shelley Hearne. Source: CBS Evening News with Katie Couric |
Food Safety |
| Jul 8, 2010 |
''How Many More? It’s Time for the U.S. Senate to Act'' ''Advertisements calling on Senator Reid and Senator McConnell to pass a strong food safety modernization bill recently ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader.'' Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Food Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Inside Washington: After years of outbreaks, FDA steps up oversight of produce safety'' A field worker has unwashed hands. An animal squeezes through a small tear in a fence. Manure from a nearby hog farm trickles into an irrigation system. Small mistakes like these are often difficult to identify as the sources of food-borne illnesses, a situation that has frustrated health authorities for years. The Food and Drug Administration and other agencies gather information about a contamination outbreak after people have already been sickened, and their investigations into what went wrong come well after the crucial evidence is gone. Source: Science News |
Food Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Food Safety Update — Report Underscores Need for Enhanced Legislation to Protect Americans'' Governing bodies aim to improve more than just the safety of produce as they take steps toward instituting stricter regulations. From bags of spinach to products containing peanuts and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, numerous food recalls have made news in the last four years. At times, it seems as though a biblical plague has been set upon our daily bread. And with food recalls continuing to grab headlines, the finding of a report issued on March 3 by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University should come as no surprise: The cost of food-borne illness is higher than previously estimated. Source: Today's Dietician |
Food Safety |
| Mar 19, 2010 |
Risk and Reward: An Interview with the Pew Health Group's Shelley Hearne In September, at an event in Iowa focused on food safety oversight, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin hailed Pew as “a true national treasure” and “a major source of light—and enlightenment.” That sentiment reached the core of the Pew Health Group’s commitment to improving public policy and informing the public by conducting rigorous analysis and developing fact-based solutions. Trust asked managing director Shelley Hearne to describe the strategy behind her multifaceted program, which ranges from enhancing food safety oversight and eliminating medical conflicts of interest to reform of credit-card industry practices. Source: Trust Magazine |
Food Safety |
| Jan 9, 2010 |
''Protection of Food Supply Faces Problems'' ''Erik Olson, director of food and consumer product safety programs for the Pew Health Group, appeared on the "CBS Evening News" in the series 'Where America Stands.'" Source: CBS Evening News |
Food Safety |
| Nov 23, 2009 |
''Foodborne Illness and Its Impact on the U.S.'' ''Erik Olson, director of food and consumer product safety programs for the Pew Health Group, appeared on C-SPAN’s 'Washington Journal' to discuss the Food Safety Modernization Act and its potential impact.'' Source: C-SPAN |
Food Safety |
| Mar 20, 2009 |
Health and Human Services Policy The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were rightly considered landmark legislation when they were passed by Congress more than a century ago...Our nation’s capacity to protect consumers cannot be met by the structures we have in place. A decade ago, the National Academies of Science called for reform of the nation’s food safety system, and in a series of reports since then, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has endorsed that goal and made specific recommendations for improvement. Source: Pew Prospectus |
Food Safety |
| Feb 15, 2009 |
''Officials Driven to Take Closer Look at Food Safety'' The deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a Georgia peanut company is having an unexpected effect: It’s forcing lawmakers — finally, critics say — to improve food-safety regulations that in some cases haven’t been updated in a century. Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
Food Safety |
| Jan 16, 2006 |
''Much Ado Over 'Lethal Genes''' The pink bollworm is only a half-inch long, but ever since it started wriggling its way through cotton fields in 1917, it has grown into one of agriculture's most detested pests. The slimy, pink-striped blob causes more than $32 million in losses every year. So far nothing has been able to eradicate it — not insecticides, not sterilization techniques, not even biotech-enhanced cotton engineered to resist it. The lowly fruit fly may provide a magic bullet. Scientists at the University of California in Riverside and the U.S. Agriculture Dept. have figured out how to breed bollworms that can't procreate. They do it by inserting into the pests a single piece of the fly's DNA — known as a "lethal gene" — that can be programmed to interfere with the development of the larvae, killing the next generation. Source: BusinessWeek |
Food Safety |
