Last updated: July 9, 2026
Food Poisoning News believes readers deserve to know who is behind the reporting they read. This page explains who publishes and funds Food Poisoning News, how our work is paid for, what we do and do not accept payment for, and how we disclose commercial relationships. It sits alongside our Editorial Standards & Ethics Policy and our Legal Disclaimer & Attorney Advertising Notice.
Who publishes Food Poisoning News
Food Poisoning News has reported on food recalls, foodborne-illness outbreaks, and food-safety science for a United States audience since 2013.
Food Poisoning News is published in affiliation with Ron Simon & Associates (RSA), a national food-safety and personal-injury law firm based in Houston, Texas. We tell readers this plainly so you can weigh it for yourself.
In practice, that affiliation means RSA-affiliated attorneys and staff contribute to and edit our content. Several members of our newsroom use RSA email addresses, an RSA attorney directs our editorial work, and the phone number published as our public contact line, 1-888-335-4901, is RSA’s intake line. Because our domain registration is privacy-protected, our registrant details are not listed in public WHOIS records. The affiliation we describe here is the accurate picture of who stands behind this site.
Our editorial independence, stated honestly
We do not claim to be wholly independent of Ron Simon & Associates, because that would not be true. What we can tell you is how we work. Our recall and outbreak reporting is built from primary public-health sources (the FDA, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the CDC, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and state and local health departments), and we cite those sources in our articles so you can check the record yourself. Where our coverage touches food-safety litigation, that connection to a law firm is a relationship you should factor in, and this page exists so you can.
How we are funded
Food Poisoning News does not charge readers, run a paywall, or sell subscriptions. We do not display programmatic advertising, and we do not run advertising, remarketing, or social-media tracking pixels on the site. We do not sell your personal information.
Our work is supported through our relationship with Ron Simon & Associates, described above. We are not funded by grants, and we do not solicit reader donations.
No paid placement in our reporting
We do not accept payment to publish an article, to change what an article says, or to add a link inside our reporting. We do not sell links, and we do not publish paid guest posts. No news article on this site is paid placement.
If we ever publish material that is sponsored or promotional rather than journalism, we label it clearly as such, consistent with our Editorial Standards & Ethics Policy.
Historical paid guest posts and link insertions
We want to be transparent about something in our past. For a period, Food Poisoning News published a small number of paid guest posts and sponsored articles that carried links to third-party websites, some of them unrelated to food safety. Those were paid link placements, not journalism, and they blurred the line between our reporting and paid content.
We are removing that material because it does not meet the editorial standards we hold ourselves to today. The commitment above (no paid placement, no sold links, no paid guest posts) is how we operate going forward, and it is the standard we are cleaning our archive to match.
How we disclose commercial relationships
We disclose relationships that a reader could reasonably see as a conflict of interest. Our affiliation with Ron Simon & Associates is disclosed here and, because the firm is a law practice, in our Legal Disclaimer & Attorney Advertising Notice, which names the responsible firm and explains that nothing on this site is legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship. Where any content is sponsored or promotional, we label it. If you believe a relationship is not disclosed clearly enough, tell us and we will fix it.
Questions about ownership or funding
If you have a question about who owns, funds, or contributes to Food Poisoning News, contact us through our contact page. We also welcome corrections to this page under our Corrections & Clarifications Policy.
Last updated: July 9, 2026