Food Safety Links
Keeping our children safe from food-borne pathogens is so important. Parents of young kids are encouraged to use the following sources to help them make informed decisions about how to protect their families from illness.
Safe Food Advocacy and Research
S.T.O.P. (Safe Tables our Priority)
Safe Tables Our Priority is a national, nonprofit, public health organization dedicated to preventing illness and death from foodborne pathogens.
BarfBlog
Musings about food safety and things that make you barf. The blog is a central location where Dr. Doug Powell and food safety friends provide rapid and brief commentary on food safety issues, post videos, powerpoint presentations and podcasts
Be Food Safe
Be Food Safe is a partnership designed to remind consumers about important safe food handling practices at the places where they shop for food.
Food Safety News
Comprehensive website offering food safety articles, recall alerts, legal advice, and policy information presented by Mahler Clark.
Center for Foodborne Illness and Research and Prevention
CFI is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
ConsumerWatch.com is a comprehensive online database offering information and news alerts on many consumer issues, including food, food recalls, and food safety.
Government Agencies
FoodSafety.gov
FoodSafety.gov is a gateway website that provides links to selected government food safety-related information.
President's Food Safety Working Group
"To have safe food that does not cause us harm and to enhance our food safety systems by fostering coordination throughout the government including enhancing our food safety laws for the 21st century. These laws will be designed to keep the American people safe and will be enforced."
Centers for Disease Control: Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States
Centers for Disease Control: E. Coli information
Government Accountability Office
The GAO included food safety reform among the urgent issues facing the president and congress in 2009.
President Obama's radio address to the nation 03.14.2009
"We are a nation built on the strength of individual initiative. But there are certain things that we can't do on our own. There are certain things that only a government can do. And one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat, and the medicines we take, are safe and don't cause us harm."
Center for Science in the Public Interest: Chart of current government legislation