I’m speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Health. I’ll be interviewed by Helena Bottemiller Evich of FoodFix from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.. Topic: “Making sense of nutrition science.”
For this one, I answered a bunch of questions and responded to a letter to the editor from Stephen Sundlof, head of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He took me to task for exaggerating the inadequacies of our our food safety system. He’s right. I exaggerated. But he should know better than anyone how badly the system works. He was in charge of the pet food recalls in 2007 and is now in charge of the current peanut butter recalls.