BARFBLOG: E-mailing Doug Powell? Don’t send it to Guelph - (barfblog)
March 12, 2008 – 6:57 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/wacky-and-strange-but-true/emailing-doug-powell-dont-send-it-to-guelph/index.html
Canadian journalists contact me regularly. This morning I was in Toronto’s Globe and Mail, offering sage words about food safety and travel.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080312.weatingabroad12/BNStory/specialTravel/home
“Take a look at the bathroom. You want to see soap, paper towels and lots of running water. If you don’t see those, you’ve got a problem, because those are the essentials for good hand washing.”
Ok, not so sage, Boring
The journos — and many others — often contact me through my University of Guelph e-mail address.
Don’t.
I mean yes, contact me, I love the attention, but don’t go through Guelph.
In Feb. 2007, my previous institution, the University of Guelph, Canada, unilaterally decided not to continue a partnership with Kansas State, and eliminated access to my staff and funds that I had established in Guelph (about $750,000). An additional $135,000 the fine supporters of the Food Safety Network had provided to produce news has also magically disappeared.
And no one at Guelph […]
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=24783
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