You probably haven’t heard anything about this group of toxic chemicals for almost six years. Formed during combustion processes such as waste incineration, they’re known to increase the likelihood of cancer after long-term low level
Chuck Jolley
Chuck Jolley is president of Jolley & Associates, a marketing and public relations firm that concentrates on the food industry. He's also president of the Meat Industry Hall of Fame, honoring the legendary figures of the business. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in broadcast journalism and was publisher of the leading business-to-business magazine serving the meat and poultry industry. He's a frequent contributor of articles about agriculture and the meat and poultry industry to business-to-business magazines and web-based publications.
S. 510 Opinion: No Free Passes
I’ve been worrying over some of the provisions of this bill, especially since some of my friends in small production agriculture are so dead set against it. They believe that the food safety requirements are…
Egg on Their Faces: Plenty of Blame to Go Around
Meat&Poultry magazine reported “AIB International on Sept. 23 issued a statement saying that while it conducted its GMP inspection in three of six in-shell egg grading/sorting facilities owned by Wright County Egg Co., Clarion, Iowa…
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Food Safety: When Logic Fails
Michael Sansolo was the chief honcho at the Food Marketing Institute for a long time before he left and joined forces with Kevin Coupe and MorningNewsBeat. He writes a column for that supermarket-oriented news…
Finding STECs in an Emotional Hay Stack
I am a fan of the meat industry’s efforts to identify and eliminate sources of foodborne illness. The work done to end the scourge of E. coli O157:H7 alone has tapped the best scientific minds…
Measuring Pathogens in Poultry
Shouldn’t we test for pathogens closer to where the public actually buys their meat and poultry?
In one of his periodic Meatingplace.com blogs (subscription required). Dr. Richard Raymond made a statement about testing poultry…
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Questioning the Search for More Strains of E. coli
Here is an easy case to make: The pursuit of E. coli O157:H7 and its total eradication has been the holy grail of the meat industry since at least the infamous 1993 Jack in the…
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Stephanie Smith Gets Her Day in Court (Almost)
Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning story published by the New York Times after she became severely ill with an E. coli infection from a contaminated hamburger, has reached an undisclosed settlement with…
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Combating E. coli (What? No traceback!)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says illnesses from E. coli O157:H7 fell to a five-year low in the U.S. last year. CDC attributed the improvement to a combination of government and industry…
Q&A: NSAC Policy Director on S. 510, II
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Part II: On traceability and recordkeeping, exemptions for small food facilities, and S. 510 in its …
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