“Today’s Seafood Special: Pig Manure, Antibiotics, and Diarrhea Bugs.” Continue reading
Posted in Food safety
“Colleges and universities are especially vulnerable because they know their students and often require them to eat on campus, Eve Hill of the Justice Department’s civil rights division says.” Continue reading
Posted in Food safety, Trial lawyers
Multi-billion dollar-costing regulatory overkill that will accomplish little. Wash and properly cook food that you purchase from trusted manufacturers and vendors. Continue reading
Posted in Food safety
Two U.S. health and environment organizations sued the federal government on Wednesday for what the groups say is a failure to implement and enforce a new food safety law that could help prevent thousands of deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year. Continue reading
Posted in Food safety
Food safety | An Agriculture Canada study found enterococcus bacteria in 94 percent of poultry samples collected from Alberta grocery stores Continue reading
Posted in Antibiotic resistance, Food safety
Little progress has been made in combating many types of food-borne illnesses in recent years, according to new federal data, an outcome that food safety advocates say underscores the need to put into place the landmark food-safety bill signed by President Obama more than a year ago. Continue reading
Posted in Food safety
“Veggie” diet blamed for poor performance of China’s women volleyball team MercoPress 27th July 2012
Fearing tainted meat, China’s women’s volleyball team has stuck to a strict vegetarian diet for the last three weeks, which the team’s coach is now blaming for his athletes’ abysmal performance. Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia, Food miscellany, Food safety, Vegan/Vegetarian
Tagged chemicals, China, clenbuterol, vegetarian, volleyball
Are the “carcinogenic” chemicals that are produced when foods are cooked really cause for concern? Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia, Food safety
Congress is poised to scrap funding for the only program that consistently tests select vegetables and fruit for pathogens — an initiative that’s led to about 30 recalls since 2009. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Food safety
And what other foods are tested anywhere near as thoroughly as GMOs? With their activist stance on “global warming,” fracking and this nonsense it appears the AMA has been completely captured by the looney enviro brigade. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Environmentalism, Food safety
Um… food hygiene? Continue reading
Posted in Food safety, Plastics
“A TIME Magazine article lists swordfish as a natural source of vitamin D when reporting research that associated low levels of vitamin D during pregnancy and higher levels of body fat in her child. However, pregnant women should not eat swordfish due to its high methylmercury content “
Nope. It’s EHN that is entirely wrong here. Pregnant women should not worry about the activist myths of immense mercury danger – it doesn’t exist unless you could eat several hundred pounds of commercially available oily fish each and every day. Mom & bub are both better off with a high fish diet. The great mercury scam is actually a facet of the attack on cheap and abundant energy (“dirty” coal), just as the fabricated fears over fracking are now. Misanthropic greenies do not want you to thrive. Continue reading
Posted in Food safety, Mercury
While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of food biotechnology, according to an industry-funded survey released Thursday. Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology, Food labeling, Food safety, Organic food
Posted in Food safety
The riskiest parts of rendered cows aren’t supposed to be fed back to other cows. But they are fed to chickens, whose waste can be fed back to cattle in what one critic calls ‘cow cannibalism.’ Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Animal rights, Food safety, vCJD ("Mad Cow")
Tagged animal libbers, irrational fears
Cooking creates chemical flagged by food regulator Concerns are growing over a potentially cancer-causing chemical found in everyday foods – that few people know even exists. Continue reading
Biotechnology can be a touchy subject for some, with the growing concern of food safety and the rate at which Americans are removed from the farm. Continue reading
Isn’t it funny how enviro attitudes (and arguments) change with the cause. Absurd “this food may contain food” labels regarding biotech or GE sourced product content are “necessary for informed consumer choice” but genuine issues like cross contamination and food-borne illness from reusable cloth bags may “mislead consumers about risk” and “discourage consumers“.
Just shot down their own anti GE labeling argument didn’t they. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Environmentalism, Food labeling, Food safety
Tagged reusable bags, single-use bags
We’d probably like to think that clean, safe food goes hand in hand with pristine nature, with lots of wildlife and clean water. But in the part of California that grows a lot of the country’s lettuce and spinach, these two goals have come into conflict. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Food safety
Foods and drinks boosted with high levels of certain vitamins and minerals are going to have to be reformulated to stay on store shelves as Health Canada moves to close a loophole that has permitted fortified snacks and beverages to be sold as natural health products. Continue reading
Posted in Food additives, Food safety
