Coalition Urges USDA to Reinstate Critical Committees
Coalition urges USDA to reinstate critical food safety advisory committees April 8, 2025 — As a coalition of consumer, industry and public health stakeholder groups with a vested interest in food safety, nutrition and chronic disease, we urge you to reinstate the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods […]
Why are chicken executives stonewalling consumers on food safety?
Why are chicken executives stonewalling consumers on food safety? Mike Taylor asks about the poultry industry’s latest display of brazen resistance to the current legislative effort Safer Poultry for Everyone I’ve been around food safety for nearly 50 years in government, academia, and the private sector. I’ve seen a lot of progress to make food […]
Stop Foodborne Illness Announces Sandra Eskin as CEO
Stop Foodborne Illness Announces Sandra Eskin as CEO Former USDA Deputy Under Secretary Officially Leads Nonprofit on Feb. 24 January 21, 2025. Chicago, IL — Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), a national public health nonprofit dedicated to preventing foodborne illness and advocating for stronger food safety policies, announces that Sandra Eskin will assume the role of […]
Four Companies Join the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness
Four Companies Join the Alliance National Restaurant Association (NRA), W.K. Kellogg, Kellanova, and International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), CHICAGO | PRNewswire | May 30, 2024 A multi-industry initiative to improve food safety culture across the supply chain, the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness, a program of Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), brings together leading food companies […]
Safe Food Coalition Opposes Meat
Inspection Deregulation
Safe Food Coalition Opposes Meat Inspection Deregulation Amendments to Farm Bill Members of the Safe Food Coalition sent the following letter to congressional leaders urging them to oppose legislation that would lift prohibitions on the interstate sale of meat and poultry from state inspected facilities and allow commercial sales from uninspected “custom” slaughter facilities. In […]
CSTE Voted YES to Cronobacter sakazakii Addition
CSTE Votes YES: AddingCronobacter sakazakii to Nationally Reportable Diseases List June 29, 2023: Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP) is confident that the vote today by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to include Cronobacter sakazakii on the nationally notifiable diseases list will have meaningful impact on infant mortality. Thank you to the CSTE for its due […]
Encouraging News from the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s FDA Report
Encouraging News from the Reagan Udall Foundation Report On the Human Foods Program of the FDA Stop Foodborne Illness, the Voice for Safe Food, is encouraged by today’s release of the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s report on the foods program of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The lengthy document discusses in detail the potential to modernize and […]
STOP Reacts to USDA Regarding New Salmonella Framework
Stop Foodborne Illness Reacts to USDA Announcement Regarding New Salmonella Framework Safer Poultry for Everyone Safer Poultry for Everyone CHICAGOOctober 14, 2022 Today , the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released the agency’s latest framework that will aim to reduce Salmonella contamination in poultry. Salmonella remains a leading cause of poultry-related foodborne illnesses […]
Overhauling the Structure and Governance of FDA’s Food Program
Overhauling the Structure & Governance of FDA’s Food Program A Submission to the Reagan-Udall Independent Expert Panel October 11, 2022 Dr. David Acheson, Steven Mandernach, Dr. Stephen Ostroff, Michael Taylor, & Roberta Wagner In April 2022, a coalition of major FDA stakeholders – representing consumers, the food industry, and state food regulators – wrote to […]
STOP Seeks Changes to the Nationally Notifiable Disease List
STOP Seeks Change Our message to FDA and CDC: Add Cronobacter sakazakii to Nationally Notifiable Disease List Click to Enlarge
USDA Adopts Guidelines from Coalition for New Poultry Safety Program
USDA Adopts Guidelines from Stop Foodborne Illness Coalition for New Poultry Safety Program CHICAGO, October 19, 2021 Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced new efforts to reduce Salmonella-related illnesses associated with poultry. The agency has committed to launching research and action on multiple fronts to reduce Salmonella […]
STOP Delivers Plan to FDA re: Consumer Food Recalls
Stop Foodborne Illness Delivers Plan to FDA To Improve and Modernize Consumer Food Recalls CHICAGO, July 13, 2021 /EINPresswire.com Recommendations Will Modernize System to Protect Consumers Stop Foodborne Illness, a public health nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of illness from foodborne pathogens, announced today that the organization has finalized recommendations to the Food and Drug […]
