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FDA

H1N1 Swine Flu Trumps Alfalfa Salmonella

April 30, 2009

The FDA and the CDC have given the latest salmonella outbreak a pass, apparently.  One has to look deep into the newspaper to read anything about the latest 31 cases of salmonella that is affecting at least six states.
I’m not minimizing the potential danger of the H1N1 flu virus.  However, it seems that we have [...]

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FDA Nuts! Pistachios This Time

March 31, 2009

Perhaps the FDA and some of the companies… Kraft, in particular… are getting the jump on a salmonella outbreak.  Could this be a lesson learned from the last nut salmonella outbreak, that killed several and sickened many?
Two million pounds of pistachios that have been distributed nationwide were recalled Monday, the Food and Drug Administration [...]

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Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right

March 22, 2009

The Democratic Party is acting like the ass that represents them.  Who could have imagined that Congress, both the House and the Senate, could squander the opportunity to lead our nation into a better place?
Well, this week we have seen the heavily Democratic dominated Congress act like the ringmasters of their own three ring circus.  [...]

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Food Safety System “Hazard to Public Health”

March 14, 2009

Well, thank goodness! President Obama has realized that one of the threats to Americans is our food safety… and the FDA.
Calling the U.S. food safety system a “hazard to public health,” President Barack Obama on Saturday named a new head of the Food and Drug Administration to start overhauling it.
See his weekly address to the [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Consumers For Once

March 4, 2009

Today was a big day in the U.S. Supreme Court.  The justices, in a 6-3 decision, said that an FDA-approval label does not protect pharmaceuticals from lawsuits.
By a 6-to-3 vote in a major defeat for the pharmaceutical industry, the high court ruled that U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling approvals do not pre-empt state laws [...]

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PCA Peanut Butter Plant in Texas Closed, 4 Year Recall on Products

February 12, 2009

Perhaps, we should consider making our own peanut butter, for those who can still stomach the idea of a peanut butter anything.
Today the Peanut Corporation of America’s Plainview, Texas had all its products recalled… for the past 4 years!
The Texas Department of State Health Services on Thursday ordered the recall of all products ever shipped [...]

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Peanut’s Parnell Pleads Fifth Amendment Protection

February 11, 2009

Okay, so when I got up this morning I was torn between watching the Congressional hearings on the peanut salmonella case and watching eight bank CEO’s get a good grilling by another Congressional committee. I turned to the Congressional committee hearing on the peanut case first, wanting to get my first look at Stewart Parnell, [...]

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FDA Grilled Over Peanut Butter Recall

February 5, 2009

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) opened the committee hearing on the Peanut recall without all the welcoming, greetings and general niceties.  Instead, he opened by saying that food safety has become a major issue, citing the recalls of the past several years.
Ranking member Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) added his statement.  Georgia grows about 50% of the [...]

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FDA Did Little to Prevent Salmonella Outbreak

January 28, 2009

Talk about another failure of the FDA!  The FDA knew of the potential for salmonella at the Peanut Corporation in Blakely, Georgia.
Of course, the FDA is blaming the plant but what did the FDA do to prevent the salmonella outbreak?  Nothing.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said at least 12 times over the past two [...]

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FDA Tracks Salmonella (With the Speed of a Snail)

January 21, 2009

Oh, please!  One of our favorite “F-Agencies” at work.
The FDA now has a list of some 125 products that are salmonella tainted as a result of peanuts.  It is safe to say that the “peanut butter” scare has broken out of the institutions.  Originally, the most recent salmonella outbreak was attributed to peanut butter that [...]

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