Dogtor Tess

The Republican Party is full of prophets. During his administration President George W. Bush thought that our financial institutions and corporations could and would adequately police themselves so he squashed or crippled agencies created to enforce governmental standards. Then Bush let the corporations redefine and rewrite the standards they should uphold and now it is almost impossible to prosecute these same corporations for breaking the laws because they wrote the laws and know how t

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According to a recent article by The New York Times , the guilty party could actually be the private inspectors who check and rate a plant’s food safety level . An audit conducted by an inspector last March declared that the gross facility in Georgia had a food safety level of “superior.” According to the FDA, however, the same plant had been plagued by salmonella for at least the past nine months. This isn’t the first known case where a private inspector failed to properly monitor a food plan

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Food safety has been much in the news, with issues such as melamine in dairy products and pet food, salmonella in peanut products, and meat safety recalls hitting the headlines.

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“He’s not quite the assassin in Armani that many in our business wish him to be.” Cattlenetworks – Chuck Jolley I called Marler to ask a few pointed questions. You’ll find just two themes in this interview. (1) What the hell is going on? And (2) What will be the effects on the cattle industry. Q. Bill, despite changes in federal rules and regs and your decade-and-a-half of court room work, food borne illnesses still seem to be piling up year-after-year. Let’s look at the Salmonella ill

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This full interview with Mr. Jolly should be up on www.cattlenetwork.com shortly. Did you know that the government needed permission from the Peanut Corporation of America before they could announce a huge recall of its products? Even after the feds began looking into felony charges against PCA management? Legally, the wording of the recall statement had to be approved by the company before the Food and Drug Administration could publish it. A few days ago, White House press secretary Robert

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