When in doubt, recall it out

Here is a great story by Daniela Torres about a voluntary recall at Winn-Dixie.

Pink Slime lawsuit

Remember the pink slime story that we were talking about in class? Here is a story about a newly filed lawsuit over the ABC story above.

Florida Food Policy Council

When you are looking for story ideas, are you checking local Florida food groups like the Florida Food Policy Council?

Food News: blog vs newspaper coverage

Compare how this newspaper covered the question of food truck food safety differently in the print edition versus the blog post

about the same topic.

Health Inspection Records and Food

Here is a link to Tampa ABC station's regular pieces on dirty restaurants. Here is a data base of restaurant health inspection records that the Sun Sentinel created based on public records. Here is an overall story on grocery store violations from the Lakeland Ledger.

Florida & Food Store Safety

The Division of Food Safety is housed in the Florida Department of Agriculture. Here is a link to the web page. There is helpful information about food store safety records. Another state agency oversees the inspections of restaurants. Here is a link.

Delays in Food safety Regulation

Yesterday, Diane Rehm's program on NPR focused on delays in food safety regulation. Here is a link to the transcript. Just a warning that you may not find melons tasty for some time.