When Government Issues Recalls, Reporters Call IFT Experts

• When the federal government proclaimed Colorado-processed ground beef and Washington-packaged romaine lettuce as the likely sources of dozens of cases of foodborne illnesses across the nation, IFT members were called into action by news media scrambling to give their audiences details on food processing and Escherichia coli O157:H7.

Two contributing authors of IFT’s recently published Expert Report on Emerging Microbiological Food Safety Issues fit the bill. Michael Doyle, University of Georgia…