When it comes to ensuring the cleanliness of fruits, many people turn to the use of baking soda or vinegar as effective washing agents. These household items are known for their ability to remove dirt, pesticides, and potential contaminants from the surface of fruits....
Consumers make choices that influence food safety risks, and providing them with recommendations on specific practices that reduce these risks could complement or substitute for additional Federal regulations and be a cost-effective tool for reducing the incidence of...
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the leading cause of death among infants born at <30 weeks’ gestation, but donor human milk can reduce the incidence of NEC. Unfortunately, freezing or pasteurizing human milk deactivates beneficial bioactive components. We...
Dr. Jack Gilbert wants to make our hospitals dirty. His idea runs counter to hundreds of years of scientific practice. Since a surgeon named Joseph Lister became the first to use antiseptic techniques in 1867 and save thousands of lives, modern medicine has worked...
Current information regarding the risks and benefits of unpasteurized (raw) dairy products is important for decisions regarding food safety policy, and is especially relevant given increasing demand for locally sourced, unprocessed foods, as well as in light of...
Dr. Joseph R. Heckman discusses securing fresh food from fertile soil, challenges to the organic and raw milk movements in his latest article. In recent decades, a diverse community of dairy farmers, consumers and nutrition advocates has campaigned amidst considerable...
The Huffington Post published an article on 12/09/2015 that discusses a new analysis that finds potentially transformative agricultural research isn’t getting the level of funding it probably should. Below are Tim Wightman, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation President,...
Checkout this article from the New Yorker entitled Freedom from Fries – From eating fast food to fast casual dining, progress for sure and one of the results of eating well. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/freedom-from-fries
Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones? While this article is obviously written for the consumer, forward thinking dairy and food producers have long known that production is not about quantity but quality. With...
Check out The End Of Organic Farming Might Be Sooner Than We Thought with Comments below by Tim Wightman. http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/94908/small-organic-farm-businesses-unsustainable-agriculture It’s a sad fact that the generations of people who grew up on...
