A race against the clock for USDA’s salmonella crackdown

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to Food Fix. I’m Jesse Hirsch, a journalist whose beat has toggled between food and farming for years. I’m currently the lead editor at Ambrook Research, a 2-year-old publication covering modern agriculture. We publish three original stories each week; a monthly podcast on American farmland; a semi-annual print publication; and we send out a smart weekly newsletter to nearly 80,000 food professionals, farmers, academics and general interest readers.

Before joining Ambrook, I was managing editor at nonprofit newsroom The Counter (RIP and welcome back), and before that I was investigative food editor at Consumer Reports. It’s in the latter role that I dove deep into the weeds of foodborne pathogens, publishing countless stories on E. coli and salmonella contaminating our leafy greens and meat supply.