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Posts By: De Ann Davis

August, 2026
FDA Communication Is a Food-Safety Tool—and It Needs to Work Better

When a foodborne illness outbreak occurs, public communication is not separate from the response. It is part of the response. Clear, timely information can help consumers avoid a specific risk and help the supply chain remove affected food. Vague, incomplete or inconsistent information can do the opposite: confuse consumers, obscure the actual risk and reduce confidence in foods that were…

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When Imported Produce Fails, American Growers Pay the Price

Product recalls and safety failures frequently harm businesses beyond the company responsible for the problem. Here’s an example: the wave of children’s-product recalls in 2007 helped prompt the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act’s broadly applicable testing and certification requirements, imposing compliance costs across the children’s-products industry. Empirical studies also find…

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A Food Safety NTSB? A Strong Idea – If We Follow Through 

Independent outbreak investigations could improve accountability and public trust, but the model will fail without authority, deadlines, funding and transparent recommendation tracking.  Foodborne outbreaks expose a structural weakness in the American food safety system: responsibility is distributed, but accountability is not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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