Tag: nuts
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Virginia Student’s Death Spotlights Food Allergies In School
The death of a 7-year-old girl at school from a peanut allergy has raised questions about a school’s responsibility in treating kids with food allergies.
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in georgia, pecan thieves find windfall, at $1.50 a pound
from nytimes: To an enterprising thief, or even a casual dabbler in crime, the fallen pecans that cover thousands of acres of unpatrolled Georgia nut orchards might as well be a carpet of nickels. Scoop up a pound — 30 nuts or so — and it can be cashed in for as much as $1.50…
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5.9m US kids have food allergies
from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to several foods, the authors added. Symptoms in a severe…
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more food safety news: beef, babies, nuts & budgets
should we care about genetically modified foods?*seed monopolies: the warning signs were there*failure to declare leads to recalls*west missouri beef recalls 14,000lbs*more melamine-tainted milk found in china*baby formula recalled in middle east*usda releases study on peanut industry*washington to ban bpa in food containers for kids*obama boosts fda food safety in fy2011 budget*