In my mass of emails from the government each day, every quarter I get one from FSIS letting me know what they've released their quarterly enforcement report. These reports detail actions taken
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I'm back! Check out the About page for more information on the new direction of the blog. Today's post will be a recurring one. Each week I'll go through the FDA warning letters recently posted, read
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I was perusing the Bad Bug Book while doing some research on the recent Blue Bell outbreak and came across a hyperlink. After hearing "do you want to know more?" in my head, I clicked through on
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While it's not an animal product, the Listeriosis outbreak recently traced to apples is just as relevant to the food industry as a whole as any other food-borne illness outbreak. While I was looking
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Is it how much you’re expected to eat? How much you should eat? Pardon me, but if I want to eat an entire bag of potato chips, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I say this as the guy who
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It has been far too long since I wrote a blog post. Look out internet, I have a blogging itch that needs scratching, and it’ll probably cause a rash! …I apologize for that mental image. The
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No, that wasn't a typo. Today I came across this petition for rulemaking to FSIS from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. First off: PCRM has some great programs that promote
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Animal Science Review is now Fur, Farm, & Fork! Because I graduated from OSU, I have had to move the hosting for this blog to a wordpress URL. I will continue to generate new content, with a
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Shigella penetrating the intestinal wall. Source: cellimagelibrary.org If the world was enriched and homogenized, we would actually have a very good idea of what the microbiological community
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Circadian rhythms and jet lag. There, cyclic crowing behavior explained. Quite a lot of people are discussing this study from Japan examining the effect of light on the crowing behavior of