In cooperation with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), we are providing this weekly heads-up alert about contaminated or otherwise unsafe foods being recalled, to reduce the health risk to consumers by making up for the lags between recall orders and their targeted products being actually pulled off grocery store shelves.
FOOD RECALL ALERT — [...]
Can’t blame the hog industry for being up in arms about labeling the new virus “swine flu.” The Obama administration, determined to rev up the economy, responded to hog farmers’ concerns by switching to the more neutral, H1N1 label, with which scientists have tagged the new strain.
A semantic adjustment, however, can only go so far [...]
28 Apr, 2009
Posted by: drobinson In: Food Safety| Public Safety
By Dina Eliash Robinson
The good news is that we can always find one or more tasty substitutes for tainted foods we’re warned to avoid. The bad news is that food freakouts keep popping up like Freddy Kruger, way more frequently than an occasional Friday the 13th.
This particular wave of bad news surfaced in 2004, when [...]
By Dina Eliash Robinson
The outbreak of salmonella typhimurium at the Blakely, Ga.-based Peanut Corporation of America in mid-2008 either completely slipped by the private inspector hired and paid by the company to check the safety of its products—a practice allowed because of the dire shortage of FDA inspectors—or was ignored because of conflict of interest. [...]
NEWS FLASH!
SINCE YESTERDAY, THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) HAS BEEN WARNING CONSUMERS TO AVOID EATING
PISTACHIOS AND ALL FOODS THAT CONTAIN THEM BECAUSE OF A WIDESPREAD SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION.
THE FDA ALSO ISSUED A RECALL ORDER FOR ALL PISTACHIO PRODUCTS, AND ITS INVESTIGATORS ARE WORKING TO TRACK DOWN AND PINPOINT THE SOURCE—OR SOURCES—OF THIS OUTBREAK.
For once [...]
Zoie (11 years old) is teaching us to make healthy sushi, with organic brown rice and organic avocado. Please click on healthy sushi to view the video.
