Welcome to part #2 of the 14-article series of animal-based proteins vs their plant-based alternative! Last week, we discussed Ground Beef vs Plant-Based Meat, so go give that a read if you missed it!

This week starts a 14-part series on animal proteins versus the plant-based alternative! Over this series, we will cover ingredients, calories, nutrition facts and other details, as well as looking at what people say about the two products! This week we start with the common debate-Ground beef vs plant-based ground beef.

Welcome back to the normal food science articles! Today, we are focusing on food safety polices and laws! Since there is SO much information out there on food safety, polices, and laws, today, we are only going to focus on a few!

Welcome back! This week, before the National Convention articles begin on Saturday, I wanted to take some time and talk about what I think future next steps in research should be-my own or others. If you haven't already, make sure to go read My Food Science Research and National Food Science Research to have a baseline for today's discussion.

Welcome back! If you didn't have a chance to read last's week's food science post, make sure to read that here. This article is introduced and set up by last week's! As promised, this week, we are going to look at other's work within food science/food safety, especially ground beef vs plant-based meat.

After last week's article over National Food Safety Education Efforts, I think it's necessary to talk about food science and food safety research. Just to preface, there is SO much research that could be talked about here, but for the sake of this article, I am only going to focus on food safety research that I have conducted. Next...

Last week, we talked about the importance of food safety education and I hinted a little of the USDA, FDA, and CDC program "Food Safe Families". This week, we are going to dive right into this program and other national programs across the country that all have the same goal--keeping consumers safe!

1 in 6 Americans get some sort of food-borne illness, or more commonly known as food poisoning, each year. This equates to 46 million cases of food-prone pathogenic infections each year, in the United States alone! Several agencies, both statewide and nationally, are making food safety education efforts. In 2022, there were 13 major multi-state...