My interest in health and nutrition began some 30 years ago. At 19 I quit smoking and for the first time in my life put on some extra pounds. (I’m sure it had something to do with the Hershey chocolate bars I consumed to ward off each and every cigarette
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Gulf Seafood Not So Safe for Pregnant Women, Children?
If people living on the Gulf Coast trusted the federal government all that much, they might be in trouble right now.
In the first peer-reviewed challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) safe levels for cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a new study says they were overestimated
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Drips Could Ruin Shredded Lettuce, Says FDA
Zuccaro’s Produce Co. in Minneapolis received a May 9 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about drip or condensate in its building.
“Your plant and facilities must be constructed in such a way that drip or condensate from fixtures, ducts, and pipes does not contaminate food, food-contact
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Refillable Soap Dispensers May Pose Risk
Liquid soap in bulk, refillable dispensers can become contaminated and actually increase the number of disease-causing microbes when people wash their hands with it, according to research published in the May issue of the journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Refillable dispensers are common in public restrooms, the researchers said
Seattle Lab Finds Tainted Grocery Store Chickens
A Seattle microbiologist reports that he found the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus on nearly half, and Campylobacter on more than half, of 100 raw chicken samples collected from area grocery stores.
The contaminated poultry included organic as well as conventionally grown chickens.
Mansour Samadpour, the nationally known food scientist who runs
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Researchers Unlock One E. coli Mystery
By following a “guiding light,” USDA researchers were able to unlock one piece of the baffling puzzle about how the potentially fatal E. coli O157:H7 can contaminate spinach and other salad greens.
The good news coming from the research is that while spinach roots can take in E. coli
Has China Learned from Melamine Scandal?
Whether it was Great Leap Forward turning out to be a reversal or the Cultural Revolution ending up in chaos, it was years before China’s top political bodies felt secure enough to talk about any lessons learned from those experiences.
But that was when the People’s Republic of China was
Floodwaters Increase Cholera Deaths in Haiti
A Cholera outbreak continues to spread in earthquak-ravaged Haiti. Late last week, the Pan American Health Organization announced that the death toll in the outbreak has risen from 442 three days ago to 501, while the number of people admitted to hospital for the waterborne illness has gone from 6,742
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Needles Found in Sausage in Toronto
For at least the third time this year, metropolitan police in Canada are investigating reports of food tampering.
The Toronto Police Service is the latest to find itself on the trail of food tamperers. Since earlier in May, Toronto Police investigators have been looking into three separate food tampering incidents
Pins, Needles, and Buttons Found In Food
The Oakridge Calgary Co-op Grocery Store had to close briefly and now has expand a recall it began Monday after finding food on its shelves was tampered with.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. are warning the public not to consume bulk buns and loaves