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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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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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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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Update on the Latest Salmonella Outbreak

January 11, 2009

So little has been reported about the 400 cases (more or less) of salmonella that many of us are probably unaware of it.
Well, folks… it’s peanut butter… again!  In 2007 Peter Pan found tainted peanut butter.  This year, although the “where it came from” is still a question, King Nut distributors has recalled two of [...]

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Salmonella Is Back

January 7, 2009

It seems that very quietly the CDC is stepping up its efforts to find the cause or the source of the 388 salmonella cases that have occurred over the past three months.
A single strain is the culprit of the cases that have spread across 42 states.

A single strain of salmonella has sickened 388 people in [...]

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FDA Approves Melamine Levels for U.S. Babies

December 2, 2008

Following all the uproar in China over melamine in infant formula and in light of U.S. pets dying by the thousands a couple of year ago due to melamine in pet food, it would seem that the FDA would have alerted Americans to melamine in infant formula. Well, that’s how it would seem to [...]

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Indicted Tomatoes Acquitted!

July 18, 2008

The FDA prosecution of the tomato proved once again that criminal indictments are often tunnel visioned and have a malicious effect on the indicted.
How many criminal cases in this country focus on one suspect to the exclusion of all others?  Well, that was the case with the tomato.  The investigators, eager to nab a suspect… in this [...]

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July 11: Week in Review

July 11, 2008

Talk about a week of ups and downs.  We’ve had another one.  So, what happened this week?
The FDA has warned us about eating certain types of tomatoes.  And, we took heed.  The tomato farmers have plowed under fields of tomatoes, acre after acre.  Now the FDA isn’t sure that the salmonella poisoning is a result [...]

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