Civil Eats

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new, lower estimate of the overall public health burden of foodborne illness in the United States.  CDC now says food poisoning sickens 1 in 6 Americans each year, not 1 in 4 as the agency had estimated in 1999. Read More

Until a year ago, I barely took note when news of another contaminated food outbreak scrawled across my television screen. But everything changed almost exactly a year ago, when our then three-year-old son, Jacob, was poisoned with Salmonella. Read More