I started Food Safety News in 2009 to fill a need. Reporters that covered food – especially food safety – were disappearing at the same time Congress was focused on if it was going to pass the most significant piece of food safety legislation in several decades – the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The reporters, three at the time, covered the ins and outs intently.
Many times, in critical hearings the only reporter in attendance was the one and only Helena Bottemiller. What Dan Flynn (a bit of a curmudgeon but my friend since 1977) has guided – with the help of several great reporters (two with three Pulitzer Prizes) – over the last 15 years has been simply amazing. Food Safety News has been called the “Newspaper of record for food safety” and has grown to have over 55,000 subscribers all over the world and over 2,000,000 views a month.
Food Safety News also has developed quite a social media following: Facebook – 202K followers LinkedIn – 37,019 followers X/Twitter — 42.9K followers Instagram — 5,878 followers The present crew, Dan in Colorado, Coral in Kansas, Jonan in West Virginia, Cookson in Washington, Chuck in Michigan and Joe in the UK, do a spectacular job serving up a full dish of news 24/7/365. And, also a big thanks to all the Op-eds and commentary from food safety thought leaders from around the world.
I am so proud of what has been created and I want to make sure it continues long after I hang up my courtroom attire. You see, for the.
