To mark National Food Safety Education Month—and 30 years since Jack in the Box—Bratager outlined the progress that’s been made and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. In 1993, four children died and hundreds more were hospitalized after eating hamburgers contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 at several Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants. In 2009, the
IFT’s Food and Nutrition Security Steering Committee is offering solutions to the challenges of hunger and food waste–and building community along the way. Two years ago, while the world was navigating the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of eight science of food experts from different corners of the globe came together to tackle