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Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will nominate Dr. Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as the next Commissioner of Food and Drugs. If the Senate confirms her, she inherits an agency that as of Monday was counting 15,716 laboratory-confirmed Cyclospora infections, 828 hospitalizations and …

Mini Mango and Rhubarb Tarts

I baked these for a garden party where I needed something small enough to hold in one hand. Rhubarb and mango sounded odd together until I tried the filling. The rhubarb cooks down tart and soft while the mango stays firm and sweet, and corn …

Publisher’s Platform: California Lettuce Was Never Implicated. California Growers Plowed Under a Third of the Crop Anyway. Here Is What the Trade Associations, Washington and the Rest of Us Can Actually Do About It.

The California Farm Bureau published a piece by Caleb Hampton this morning and it says the quiet part plainly. California lettuce was never implicated in this outbreak. The recall covered seventeen days of shredded iceberg from one Taylor Farms facility in Guanajuato. Mexico ships very little …