Dr. Michael Osterholm, Esteemed Authority On Public Health, Speaks Frankly About The FDA, The CDC And The Incompetent Management of the Salmonella Saintpaul Tomato Outbreak Investigation presents an interview that is probably the single most important piece we’ve ever presented here at the Perishable Pundit – for, in the course of this interview, an esteemed expert on public health speaks out because he has observed in the way the FDA and CDC have handled the Salmonella Saintpaul Tomato Outbreak an affront to the enhancement of public health he has fought for his whole career.

PerishablePundit.com , which is written by the Editor-in-Chief of PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine, has posted an in-depth round up of its exhaustive coverage of the Salmonella SaintPaul/Tomato crisis. The roundup is updated frequently.

When the Financial Times published a brief article on some new consumer research on Fresh & Easy conducted by a company called “Execution Research,” it piqued a lot of interest.

Under the guise of enhancing food safety the FDA acts in an essentially lawless way. Businesses are destroyed; people are bullied, all in service of an outdated vision of how to make food safe. Piece has an interview with a former FDA employee and points the way to a risk-based food safety system that will enhance food safety and limit FDA abuse.