The California Assembly, where the current multi-state movement to ban certain food additives began two years ago, has acted again; this time, its focus is on California’s $1.6 billion school lunch program.
In its latest action, the California Assembly has sent the state Senate a bill that prohibits, commencing July
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A ban on serving raw beef liver in restaurants in Japan has not decreased the number of E. coli infections in the country, according to a study.
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes many symptoms from diarrhea to the potentially deadly hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Serving raw beef liver dishes at
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I worked with a guy once who taught me that for every problem, there was a quote from Benito Mussolini, Italy’s dictator for 21 long years. My former associate, the Mussolini devotee, would say it in Italian, then in English, and then repeat in Italian as if we could all
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The Food and Drug Administration late Friday clarified an earlier warning that all oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from Korea should be considered adulterated and removed from the market, and said that ban includes canned products.
An earlier news release from the Washington State Department of Health had said the
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Ground beef sold to Americans is going to undergo more E. coli testing in 2012, and the historic decision to require it was 2011’s 4th more important food safety story.
For the first time since 1994, when the E. coli strain O157; H7 was banned from meat, six more serotypes
Last week the European Commission lifted import restrictions on fresh and chilled podded peas and green beans and other fresh produce from Egypt. The ban had been an emergency action imposed in July, after imported Egyptian fenugreek seeds were blamed for the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 linked to sprouts
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After failed attempts in past years, the California state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would ban bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, from baby bottles and sippy cups for infants and small children.
The Toxin-Free Infants Act would ban the plastic chemical from beverage containers made or sold after
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Drugs, alcohol and … flavored milk? Cartons of this sugary beverage are now on the list of banned substances at Los Angeles-area schools.
As of today, strawberry and chocolate milk will no longer be offered on campuses in the LA Unified School District (LAUSD). This June, the school board —
Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction.
Beginning in July, South Korea is promising to strictly enforce a ban on the use of so-called antibiotic growth promoters in animal feed, according
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would bar imports of some dairy products and fresh produce from the area around Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In a guidance issued to field personnel, FDA said shipments of spinach, milk and a leafy green called kakina
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