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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 [...]

Study Shows Organic and Conventionally-Produced Food Nutritionally Similar

An independent study commissioned by Britain’s Food Standards Agency (the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration),  shows that there are no significant differences in the nutrition content, or any additional health benefits, of organic food when compared with conventionally produced food. The focus of the review was solely on the nutritional content of foodstuffs, and did [...]

Mom Finds Frog in Frozen Green Beans

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Attention Walmart shoppers!  Look carefully the next time you pop open a bag of Great Value frozen veggies.  A mom from Tyler, Texas was making a meal for her kids when she claims she found a frog in a bag of frozen green beans.  She now has the giant discount retailer in [...]

Nestlé’s Toll House Cookies the Latest on Food Product Recall List

Nestlé’s Toll House refrigerated cookie dough is the latest on the list of tainted food product recalls.  The Food and Drug Administration in a June 19 press release , urged consumers to throw away any packages of the raw cookie dough, since it may be contaminated with E.coli, a bacterium that causes food borne illness.  [...]

FDA Recalls Mexican-Style Cheeses

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall for various types of soft Mexican-style cheeses manufactured by Torres Hillsdale Country Cheese, in Reading, Michigan, due to possible listeria contamination.  Sold under the name Aguas Calientes, the potentially contaminated items were distributed to retail stores and delis in the states of Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, [...]

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 [...]

States Take Food Safety Regs Into Own Hands

Americans are a patient bunch of folks, but their patience is starting to wear thin.  They’ve been waiting … and waiting … and waiting … for the federal government to get its act together and do something to update and modernize food safety laws.  After a rash of food-borne illnesses that caused coast-to-coast panic and [...]

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 [...]

Our Fractured Food Safety System – What You Need To Know

A newly released study by public health experts reveals a clumsy, bunglesome and fractured food safety system lacking in federal leadership.
“We need one food safety system, not 50,” said Joseph Corby, executive director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials. “State and local agencies do 2.5 million inspections a year, analyze hundreds of thousands [...]

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 [...]

Pistachio Products from California contaminated with Salmonella

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced that the second-larget pistachio processor in the nation, Setton Farms a Terra Bell, California  is recalling up to 1 million pounds of it’s pistachio products that may have been cross-contaminated with salmonella.  Setton Farms is a food wholesaler who packages pistachio for companies such as Kraft foods and incorporates [...]

Obama puts the FDA under review

The FDA is going under review after the salmonella scare. A look back at the other food contamination of the year