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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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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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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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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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The FDA is the Rotten Tomato in the Salad

July 2, 2008

Well, I have laid off the “F” agencies for a while, even commending FEMA for the work they are doing in the flooded central part of our country.  But, just when one starts to think there is hope for a government agency, the FDA shows that it has no direction and no focus.  Of course, [...]

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