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Russia says ‘nyet’ to pork from two Tyson plants
Pork, please, but hold the E. coli. Russia reportedly has banned pork from two Iowa plants run by Tyson due to Russians' finding E. coli bacterium in pork from the plants. (Brownfield) AKPC_IDS += "4967,";
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Digest – Features & Blogs: Local or just “good,” Marler takes the stand
We know it when we eat it: The NYT's Mark Bittman ponders what to call food that used to go by "natural," before that word got co-opted by corporate marketing teams. "Instead of labeling ourselves — I only eat 'local,' 'seasonal,' or 'organic' food — why don’t we just say we strive to eat 'good'
Digest – News: The California conundrum, Monsanto at large, and tuna testing (not to be tried at home)
A new growth export market - the revolving door: U.S. government agencies are imploring foreign countries to bring their food safety regulations up to the (arguably pretty low) U.S. par, but the buck doesn't stop there: countries like India are being pushed to develop regulations on GM crops, industrial
All steriled up: Produce safety guidelines throw sustainability out, keep toxic bathwater
Readers may remember back in November when I announced the first installment of a two-part post on produce safety. It's taken me a few months to get around to it, but here we are: part 2! Photo of a "sterile farm" courtesy of the
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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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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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
Digest – News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing
It ain't over until the biotech giant screams: Wal-Mart says its private-label milk will be produced with no artificial growth hormones, aka Monsanto's rBST drug Posilac. (Globe and Mail) Related: Kroger
Digest – Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157′s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
Question for Digest readers; Does it annoy you when a Digest is really long like this one and we don't break it with a More jump? How bout when we do? Locavore locus: The Chronicle's Farming the City package features Kevin
Two lawsuits filed against raw-milk dairy Organic Pastures
The Ethicurean has learned that California's leading raw-milk dairy, Organic Pastures, has been named in two personal-injury lawsuits related to a 2006 outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7. Meanwhile, California’s Assembly Agriculture Committee is currently establishing a "blue ribbon commission"
Non-total recall: The USDA’s lack of authority
A line of 7,500 trucks stretching 85 miles. That's what it would take to haul the nearly 300 million pounds of meat and poultry products that were recalled between January 1, 1994, and November 30, 2007, in 773 separate incidents. These eye-popping numbers come from the appendix of a Congressional
Bringing your work home: Poultry workers carry drug-resistant E. coli into the community
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been in the news a lot lately. Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle had a front page story about the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the causes
First major E. coli-related recall of 2008
Well, the meat's from 2007, but why quibble when we have this exciting new graphic to guide your decision whether or not to eat a burger of questionable provenance? Details: Rochester Meat of Minnesota is recalling approximately 188,000 pounds of ground beef products because — drumroll! —
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