Coffee, Tea, or Diarrhea? How to Handle Food on Flights By Sydney Ross Singer  (This article by Sydney Ross Singer was originally posted on his blog May 1, 2015, and is reposted here with his permission.) Airplane food has been under scrutiny for food safety breaches. But even the best prepared food can become a vector of disease when it is consumed using contaminated hands. Airline travel exposes people to extremely germ-infested conditions,... Continue Reading
USDA: COOL Not Much of an Economic Benefit for Consumers By Dan Flynn  Country-of-origin labeling (COOL) does not provide much in the way of "measurable economic benefits" for American consumers and costs producers, packers, and retailers in the United States $2.6 billion a year for all covered commodities, USDA's chief economist stated in a 198-page report sent Friday to Congress. The report was mandated by the 2014 Farm Bill and... Continue Reading
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … ” So begins “A Tale of Two Cities,” the famous novel by Charles Dickens about events leading up to the French Revolution. While two recent ice cream recalls pale in their relative significance to world history, they loom large in the world of food... 
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