Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2012 |
''Foodborne Illness Victim Becomes a Poster Child For Change'' Since the 2006 death of two-year-old Kyle Allgood, his parents have become advocates for better food safety regulations. They are currently involved in a campaign to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, a law signed by President Barack Obama in January 2011. Source: Boise Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Sep 17, 2012 |
Expert Discusses Changes to School Lunch Programs Jessica Donze Black of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project recently appeared on C-SPAN to talk about recent changes to the operating costs of school lunch programs. Topics included the history of the program, the role of the Agriculture Department, qualifications for participants, and nutritional requirements. Source: C-SPAN |
School Food |
| Sep 10, 2012 |
''Front & Center: Keeping an Eye on Food Supply'' The Orlando Sentinel asked Sandy Eskin, project director of the Food Safety Campaign with the Pew Health Group, about the latest foodborne illness outbreak and the legislation in limbo drafted to avert such tragedies. Source: Orlando Sentinel |
Food Safety |
| Sep 7, 2012 |
Pew Scholars Win Both 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Awards Both winners of the 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award are current Pew Scholars; Valerie Horsley, 2010 Pew Scholar and Mary Gehring, 2011 Pew Scholar. Source: Genetics Society of America |
Biomedical Research |
| Sep 6, 2012 |
''Don’t Forget Your (Kid’s!) Lunch'' "It’s back-to-school time! School supplies? Check! Medical forms completed? Check! Clothes for the first day? Check! School lunch?. . ." Source: MomsRising.org |
School Food |
| Sep 4, 2012 |
''Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny'' "Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and poultry are not required to report how they use the drugs — which ones, on what types of animal, and in what quantities. This dearth of information makes it difficult to document the precise relationship between routine antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic-resistant infections in people, scientists say." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 28, 2012 |
''NIH Superbug Outbreak Highlights Lack of New Antibiotics'' "As doctors battled a deadly, drug-resistant superbug last year, they turned to an antibiotic of last resort. But colistin, as it’s called, was discovered in 1949. Between 1945 and 1968, drug companies invented 13 new categories of antibiotics, said Allan Coukell, director of medical programs at the Pew Health Group. Between 1968 and today, just two new categories of antibiotics have arrived." Source: The Washington Post |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| Aug 27, 2012 |
''Who Determines Safety of New Food Ingredients?'' "Grocery shoppers examining colorful packages bearing long lists of hard-to-pronounce ingredients might take comfort in the belief that those substances were deemed safe by the government. But that's not the case. Over the past 15 years, the vast majority of new ingredients added to U.S. food never received a safety determination from the government." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Additives |
| Aug 23, 2012 |
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics On August 22, researchers at the National Institute of Health released a scientific paper detailing the use of advanced genetic technology to trace a deadly infection, untreatable by nearly every antibiotic, that spread through the NIH’s Clinical Center last year. Source: |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 23, 2012 |
''Turning Point: Sohini Ramachandran'' Sohini Ramachandran, a population geneticist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, received two high-profile awards this year. In June, she was named a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and in February, she received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York. She plans to use the grants to distinguish herself in a fast-moving field. Source: Nature |
Biomedical Research |
| Aug 22, 2012 |
Pew's Erik Olson Discusses Delays in Implementation of Food Safety Modernization Act Erik Olson, director of food programs at the Pew Health Group, appeared on both Federal News Radio and NPR to discuss the delay by the Office of Management and Budget in implementing draft rules for the key provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Source: Federal News Radio, NPR |
Food Safety |
| Aug 15, 2012 |
''Delaware's Lachke Selected Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences'' "Salil Lachke, a University of Delaware biologist whose research is yielding new discoveries about the world’s leading causes of blindness, has been named a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Lachke is one of 22 scholars selected across the U.S., and the first University of Delaware professor to receive the award." Source: UDaily |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 30, 2012 |
''Foodborne Illnesses Not Diminishing, CDC Finds'' "Little progress has been made in combating many types of food-borne illnesses in recent years, according to new federal data, an outcome that food safety advocates say underscores the need to put into place the landmark food-safety bill signed by President Obama more than a year ago." Source: The Washington Post |
Food Safety |
| Jul 28, 2012 |
''Report: Cutting School Junk Food Boosts Kids’ Health, Doesn’t Hurt School Budgets'' "A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concludes that getting rid of junk food at school boosts kids’ health and doesn’t hurt schools financially. Even many snack food companies are on board." Source: WBUR Common Health Blog |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 27, 2012 |
''Group recommends raising nutrition standards in schools'' "'The evidence is clear and compelling,' said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project in a press release. 'Implementing strong national nutrition standards to make the snacks and beverages our children consume healthier is something that schools and districts can afford. The USDA should do all it can to finalize and help implement strong standards.'" Source: Austin Daily Herald |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 27, 2012 |
"There are serious weaknesses in a system that allows firms to self-affirm the safety of food ingredients without the approval or knowledge of regulators, according to researchers conducting a probe into the nation’s food additives law." Source: Food Navigator |
Food Additives |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
''Illinois Second-Most Affected State From Foodborne Illness'' In January 2011, President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was supposed to begin a total overhaul of the FDA. Unfortunately, according to the Pew Health Center, the Consumers Union and other food safety organizations, the administration has not issued the necessary regulations to implement the law. As a result, outbreaks continue and Illinois is among the worst hit. Source: Chicagoist |
Food Safety |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
Pew Biomedical Scholars Named Outstanding Early-Career Scientists by President Obama Four Pew Scholars have been awarded Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. They are Source: |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
''Taking Health Into Account'' Aaron Wernham, director of the Health Impact Project, explains how by systematically assessing the health risks of development decisions upfront, health impact assessments can prevent costly and harmful mistakes. Source: Shelterforce |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 19, 2012 |
''Chefs Learn Advocacy Lessons'' Sixteen chefs gathered earlier this month at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn. for the James Beard Foundation's Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change, a two-day program, jointly sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that focused on coaching chefs on how to become stronger advocates for the causes which matter to them, and exposing them to the resources at their disposal. Source: Seattle Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety'' "Families, public health advocates and consumer groups called on the White House on Tuesday to implement delayed provisions in a food safety law they say would help prevent some of the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year." Source: Reuters |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''White House under fire for delays on food safety rules'' "Dana Dziadul and her mother, Colette, are joining other food safety advocates in urging the White House to implement provisions of a federal law that President Barack Obama signed in January 2011." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Groups Urge Action on Food Safety Law'' "Ten consumer groups that helped promote a landmark food safety law passed in 2010 say the Obama administration is holding up the rules that would put it into effect, a delay they say could cost money and lives this summer, the peak season for food contamination outbreaks." Source: The New York Times |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Teen who nearly died after eating contaminated cantaloupe speaks out'' A Brevard County, FL, teenager who helped bring about the Food Safety Modernization Act told WFTV she wanted to know why the federal law isn't being fully implemented. Source: WFTV-9 |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 16, 2012 |
''Delays in new food-safety regulations cause frustration'' Seventeen months after President Obama signed a law hailed as a massive overhaul of food safety, major portions have yet to be implemented. Erik Olson, director of food programs with the Pew Health Group, remarks, "What's important is that these new protections of our food supply be put into place as soon as possible to protect all Americans from getting sick from contaminated food. Source: USA Today |
Food Safety |
