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Author Archives: Mat Bartkowiak
“Mad Cow Disease” Back in the Spotlight
“Mad Cow Disease:” this may be a reference that many American consumers might associate with the U.K. and the 1990s, or the 2003 American outbreak. April of 2012 might change those associations. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known commonly as “Mad Cow Disease,” was thrust into the American mindset again after the fourth confirmed case [...]
“Brie” Are (Not) the Champions…Close, But This Year…Just Not “Gouda” Enough
Though a Brie made the list of the “Top 16 Finalists,” it was a Vermeer Gouda from the Netherlands that won best in show at the 2012 World Championship Cheese Contest (and thus allowing for the charming title of this piece). All puns aside, this year’s World Championship Cheese Contest (WCCC), made headlines all around [...]
Preventative Controls – Focus of FDA
It looks like 2012 will be a busy year for Food Safety Modernization Act developments. According to the FDA, the agency is “expected to issue proposed rules during early 2012, that would require facilities that make or handle food for people and animals to put measures in place to help prevent foodborne illness.” These rules [...]
It’s Show Time!
Below you will find several of the many conferences offered this year focusing on the dairy industry. If you would like to see an upcoming dairy or food industry conference, workshop, or symposium featured on the Nelson-Jameson blog, leave a comment on this post. Ice Cream Technology Conference March 6-7 in St. Petersburg, Fl. The [...]
Super Bowl Sustenance
The Super Bowl is such a big game in so many ways. Whether one thinks in terms of the NFL as a business itself, advertising revenue, merchandising revenue, tourist money flowing into the hosting city, etc, the implications of sixty minutes of playing time between two football teams on one field represents a massive and [...]
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