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Recent Newspaper & Online Columns by Kate Scannell MD

"Eggribusiness" and food safety regulation - Salmonella in the scramble

By Kate Scannell MD, Contributing columnist Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED IN PRINT 09/18/2010

YOU RISK upsetting readers whenever you express strong opinions within medical columns. Writing about controversial health care issues predictably ruffles a few feathers. But "laying it all out" for public deliberation is a primary objective of op-ed writing, and this week's column shell make no eggs-ception.

So here goes. Simply put: I am opposed to the presence of disease-causing salmonella within eggs meant for human consumption.  Read More