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.

Food Bank Trend?

Here is a story from yesterday's USA Today about food banks. This is the kind of trend piece that is easy to localize.

Food Business Story

Here is a food business story. This is the kind of story that can lead to a trend piece - are Orlando-area restaurants doing this?

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.

Food Regulation Column

Here is a great column that examines food regulation by the government.