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A mother of two always-hungry boys, Laura Trivers is the communications director for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention.
Laura Trivers
A mother of two always-hungry boys, Laura Trivers is the communications director for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention.
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March 26, 2014
Beginning in January, more than 300,000 people – moms and dads just like us – who care about the food they eat and the food they feed their families signed a petition asking federal officials to keep chicken from China out of our supermarkets and school lunch . The petition was directed at President Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and leaders of the Senate and House appropriations subcommittees with responsibility for agriculture issues. Two months and 313,000 people hailing from every state in the Union later, what did these elected and appointed officials say? What did they do?...
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February 5, 2014
In line at a popular burrito chain with my son, we watched as one employee made the order for the customer in front of us, took money, made change, and then returned to make my son’s burrito. In the same pair of plastic gloves. She quickly complied with my request for her to wear new gloves, unlike the deli worker at my local Whole Foods. I watched him and his glove-clad hands walk through doors to a storage area and then return carrying more deli meat in one hand and rubbing his nose with the other. He then argued with me that he did not have to change his gloves. Luckily, another employee...
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September 5, 2013
My family had a wonderful vacation this month in Acadia National Park . We hiked along trails that abutted the ocean, biked the carriage roads, and took an awe-inspiring whale-watching trip. One afternoon, we stopped at the iconic Jordan Pond House , famous for popovers and lemonade. They serve the lemonade with the simple syrup on the side, so you can make it as sweet or as tart as you like. We had such a lovely time that we made reservations for dinner later in the week. We should have stopped at lunch. At dinner, my jaw dropped when our waiter carried our lemonades on a tray stacked with...
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July 23, 2013
I love flipping through cookbooks to get ideas for dinner from the glossy pictures and the enticing descriptions of the meals I could create with the right ingredients in my pantry and fridge and a few more minutes in my day. But, as the communications director for the food safety non-profit, the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention , for the past three years, often times reading recipes makes me cringe because of all the food safety mistakes. Would you like a side of foodborne illness with that? Chefs get kudos for tasty dishes, but all too often, they get a failing grade...
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