Tag: food safety
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The Schmallenberg Virus: DARPA and the Fraunhofer Society?
The Schmallenberg virus is the name that has been given to the collective cases of lamb, sheep, goat and cattle still births and birth deformities that have spread at an alarming rate across a large part of Europe.
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Vintage Weight Loss Ads: A Look at Health Advice of Yesteryear
from huffingtonpost.com: Would Don Draper approve these messages? With Mad Men’s season five premiere bringing everyone’s favorite vintage show back to television on Sunday, we decided to take a look back at the ads that influenced our dieting styles and body images over the years. It’s easy to think of the current glut of half-baked…
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Monsanto Pushes Outrageous Lies to Kids, Calls It Science
from foodfreedomgroup.com: The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as ‘science’ for schoolchildren. It’s not enough that the biotech industry — led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont — is poisoning our food and our planet. It’s also…
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#BingeAndPurge: Cinnamon and Slime With Your GM Fetal Soda?
Cinnamon Challenge YouTube Craze Gains Millions of Viewers, Frightens Health Professionals as the Copycat Effect Kicks In // USDA to Americans: You’ll Eat Pink Slime Whether You Want It or Not // Obama agency rules Pepsi’s use of aborted fetal cells in soft drinks constitutes ‘ordinary business operations’
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Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically modified fish becomes the latest food craze to hit America
from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. The recipes use glofish, a brand of genetically modified (GM) fluorescent zebrafish…
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Uphill Struggle for Food Exporters on Fukushima’s 1st Anniversary
For many people around the world, food from Japan used to have an image of being among the healthiest around, let alone safe to consume. That changed after March 11, 2011, when the massive earthquake and tsunami triggered the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter…
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2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic // EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade’ // Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food System // China’s Xi, US officials talk food trade in Iowa // Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning // Obama’s budget cuts bacteria testing in produce…
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Records Show Critical Violations at Stupor Bowl Stadium Vendors
What could ruin a fan’s once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Super Bowl more than his team’s quarterback fumbling away the game in the final seconds? Try a trip to the emergency room courtesy of food poisoning.
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ex-health inspectors nabbed on bribery charges in san francisco
two accused of bribery for selling food safety exams* from fork in the road: Two former San Francisco health inspectors have been accused of swapping cash in exchange for okaying hundreds of restaurants’ food safety qualifications, the Associated Press reports. The ex-inspectors are said to have sold up to 350 health certificates since 2007, charging…
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11/3 binge & purge: stamps, pantries & the car connection
$15t in debt, 45m on food stamps & zero solutions* US seeks china aid on food safety* cupboard is bare at staten island’s food pantries* people eat more fast-food as income rises* video: michigan rethinks food stamp-car connection*
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Flood of Food Imported, Just 2% Inspected
At a sprawling warehouse here, two investigators from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration watched intently as 50 boxes of preserved bean curd from China were emptied into a grinding machine.
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schumer calls for clear juice concentrate standards
from fox 23 news: U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the FDA to put in place clear standards for imported fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and step up inspection of concentrates from countries that use toxic, inorganic arsenic in their pesticides, or with high levels of environmental contaminants. Schumer pointed out that, although…
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promises, promises: food anti-terror plans costly
from ap: One of the deepest fears sweeping a shattered nation following the Sept. 11 attacks was that terrorists might poison the country’s food. Hoping to ease people’s anxieties about what they were eating, President George W. Bush vowed to draw a protective shield around the food supply and defend it from farm to fork.…
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New UK ‘Reforms’ Could Let Milk From TB-Infected Cattle Into Food Chain
Controversial proposal among more than 200 reforms to food safety and environmental regulations put forward by farming regulation taskforce.