You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.

Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.