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Food Tattoos Coming Your Way

Would you buy  tattooed food?  How about food with laser etchings?
You may not have a choice if the Food and Drug Administration has its way.  In an effort to do away with the sticky labels on fruits and vegetables that provide its name or variety, as well as the product lookup number, the FDA is [...]

FDA says Unidentified Blob in Pepsi Can is a Frog

The Food and Drug Administration just completed tests confirming that a can of Diet Pepsi consumed by a Florida man did contain the remains of a dead animal, believed to be a frog or possibly a toad.  Although this sounds like yet another story of opportunists trying to extort money out of a large corporation, the [...]

Monsanto VP May Run Food Safety Grp

Jill Richardson points out that Obama is considering Michael Taylor — former Monsanto Vice President for Public Policy — to head his new Food Safety Working Group. Are you kidding me? The conflict of interest should be glaringly obvious even to a five-year old. Why not ask Whimpy to start a hamburger delivery service?
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2 Yrs of Salmonella Tainted Food Recalled

The FDA and USDA are rapidly becoming the laughingstock and hazard of the century. UPI reports Plainview Milk Products Cooperative is recalling two years of food products due to possible contamination.
“The FDA said the Plainview, Minn., company is voluntarily recalling the instant non-fat dried milk, whey protein, fruit stabilizers and gums (thickening agents) that it [...]

Why is Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup? – Ask The FDA

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The issue with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is not with the claim that it’s linked to obesity and diabetes, the issue is that HFCS is marketed as “natural” and “safe”. The process involved in manufacturing HFCS involves using a host of chemicals that have resulted in samples of HFCS testing positive for [...]

How To I.D. Genetically Modified Food at the Supermarket

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Not many consumers realize that the FDA does not require genetically modified food to be labeled. That’s because the FDA has decided that you, dear consumer, don’t care if the tomato you’re eating has been cross bred with frog genes to render the tomato more resistant to cold weather. Some consumers may not [...]

Setton Farms Knew Its Pistachios were Contaminated With Salmonella

An FDA inspection report disclosed that Setton Farms, the full service provider of pistachios, nuts, dried fruit, edible seed, chocolate and candy to the snack food industry, and center of a salmonella scare, “knew some of its pistachios were tainted but continued shipping nuts for another six months”.
The inspection report revealed Setton got results in [...]

Alfalfa Sprouts the Latest Salmonella-Tainted Product

For the second time in three months, alfalfa sprouts are on the list of foods that may be contaminated with salmonella.  The latest warning issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautions consumers against eating raw alfalfa sprouts, after more than 30 cases of salmonella were [...]

Is Your Pantry Contaminated?

Researchers from the Rutgers University Food Policy Institute found that only 60 percent of Americans search their homes for recalled food products that may be contaminated.  Many of them believe they are less likely than others to have purchased tainted products and only 10 percent said they had ever found something on the recall list.
“Getting consumers [...]

Mystery E. Coli Outbreak at Oklahoma Restaurant

Health officials in Oklahoma released an April 9 report indicating an E. coli bacteria linked to hundreds of illnesses and one death may have come from a water well; but since no specimen of the bacteria was identified in the restaurant, officials are still uncertain how the bacteria made its way into the eating establishment, [...]

Setton Pistachio Recall Expands To All Nuts Harvested 2008

Setton Pistachio, one of the largest pistachio processors in the nation, expanded its recall Monday to cover all lots of roasted in-shell pistachios, roasted shelled pistachios and raw shelled pistachios that were produced from nuts harvested in 2008. Last Tuesday, FriendsEat reported Setton recalled up to 1 million pounds of its pistachio products believed to [...]

More on the Pistachios’ Recall

Is it Kraft or the FDA’s responsiblity to make our food safe?

As reported the second-largest pistachio processor in the United States has recalled one million pounds of pistachio products. The New York Times reports the pistachios were sent in 1,000 to 2,000-pound bags to about three dozen wholesalers who repackaged them and resold them to [...]