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Digest – News & Features: Organic gets wild n’ crazy, turkey workers do too, and everyone turns to SPAM
When organic gets fishy: The National Organic Standards Board ruled to allow farmed fish that consume up to 25% non-organic feed to be labeled "organic." Consumer advocates worry it's the beginning of a downward slide for standards on other organic animal products. (Washington
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Canada’s current food-safety crisis
Canada is gearing up for a shift in its food system. Two things have happened to spur this possible upcoming shift in Canadians' buying and eating habits. First, Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest food processor, has announced that some of
Red alert! Americans are concerned about food safety!
Crank up the RSS feed! The news is out that Americans are worried about the safety of their food supply. This astonishing revelation comes to us via the Center for Food Integrity, an organization established just last year in Kansas City, Mo., "to increase
Big problems? Blame the little guy
Been feeling a bit queasy about all the contaminated meat peppering the news lately? Put that weary stomach to rest. Yes, children, all is well with the world (or at least the world of ground beef). In yet
“End Times” for Nebraska Beef?
The wave of ground-beef recalls entangling even Whole Foods has grown to tsunami proportions for Nebraska Beef Ltd.: the amount of beef recalled has reached
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Whole Foods beef part of massive recall
Another day, another E. coli recall from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. This time the recall is for 1.2 million pounds of "primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef" packed by Nebraska Beef
Just another E. coli ground-beef recall
For some reason whenever an email alert from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service comes through late at night, it's a sizable E. coli beef recall. This time it's 153,630 pounds of frozen ground beef products produced by S&S Foods LLC of Azusa, Calif., that may be contaminated with that peskily
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Obama introduces innocuous food-safety bill
Senator Barack Obama introduced a food safety bill in the Senate on Tuesday that outlines his intent to increase food surveillance, create a working group of stakeholders (including consumers) to examine implementation, encourage academic research on detection, and evaluate the effectiveness of the existing
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Salmonella shenanigans in Washington, D.C.
In a comment on my post about the FDA's new target in the salmonella investigation, Rebecca
Tomatoes off the hook, FDA aims at chili peppers
On July 17, the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning about raw tomatoes after its investigation determined that
Something good for a change: USDA increases info access on meat recalls
Score one for access to information. The USDA announced today that starting next month, it will publicize the names of retail stores that have received shipments of recalled meat and
Are tomatoes the kickoff to food-illness season?
Ugh. Looks like our industrial food system is cranking out the salmonella for broad distribution again. That's the word from the latest Food and Drug Administration consumer
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RIP crap beef
"No grilling, no barbecue: Recalled beef buried in landfill" was the lede story of my local paper in Livingston, Montana, this evening. The Livingston Enterprise led with a large photo of a front-end loader burying recalled
Another downer: The school lunch program
This weekend's big news, as Bonnie has already reported, was the massive recall of beef processed by Chino, CA-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing company. There has been much well-deserved coverage of the animal cruelty
143 million pounds of beef recalled — but not to worry
It's rather unusual to get an email about an update from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on midday Sunday of a holiday weekend. It's also rather unusual to go to the USDA's open cases website and find
