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Vaccine Tested In Fight Against Tainted Beef

nytimes.com | William Neuman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Food Poisoning, Cows, Fda, Beef, Health, Tainted Beef, E Coli Vaccine, Vaccine, Bacteria, Germs, Wellness, E. Coli, Living News

Jason Timmerman coaxed a balky calf into a chute on his feedlot one recent afternoon and jabbed a needle into its neck. He was injecting the animal wi...

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It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Issue 2, Animal Welfare, Election Day, H1n1, Swine Flu, Public Health, Factory Farms, Food Safety, E. Coli, Food-Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News
Paula Crossfield

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Ground Beef Recall: Two Deaths Could Be Linked To E. Coli Contamination

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Beef, Fairbank Farms, Food Politics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Usda, Kirsten Gillibrand, E. Coli, Business News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, fede...

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Newsflash! CNN Offers Conclusive Proof: They're Meatheads!

Christina Pirello | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Larry King, Cnn, Patrick Boyle, Larry King LIve, E. Coli, Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Health, Living News
Christina Pirello

It's on the evening news and in newspapers all the time. Not a day goes by that someone isn't talking about health, how to eat, what to do about obesity, heart disease and diabetes and our food supply.

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Meat Takes a Beating, Gets a Blessing on Larry King

Kerry Trueman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Bill Marler, Anthony Bourdain, Foodborne Illness, Larry King, E Coli, Factory Farm, Cargill, Patrick Boyer, China Study, Vegetarianism, Meat, Dr. Colin Campbell, American Meat Institute, Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Larry King and cheap processed meat. They've got a lot in common: both smush together scraps of debatable value and dubious origin and extrude them as suitable fodder for our more credulous compatriots.

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The Most Dangerous Foods (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Risky Food, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food, Dangerous Food, Slideshow, Salmonella, Riskiest Food, Food Outbreaks, E. Coli, Deadly Foods, Leafy Greens, Green News

A new study put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has ranked the ten foods that the FDA regulates which have caused the most...

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The High Human Cost of Unsafe Food

Marion Nestle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Safety, Bill Marler, Cspi, Food Contamination, Contamination, E. Coli, Green News
Marion Nestle

Center for Science in the Public Interest has a new report out on the 10 foods that cause the most cases of foodborne illness. So how come Congress isn't forcing all food producers to produce safe food?

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Brain Damage, Meat Processors, Food, Agriculture, Regulation, E. Coli, Grocers, Usda, Food Poisoning, Red Meet, Hamburger, E Coli, Severe Food Poisoning, Beef Processors, Health, Ground Beef, Beef, O157:H7, Cargill, Business, Restaurants, Frozen Hamburgers, Burger, Cattle, Ecoli, Food Safety, Costco, Bad Hamburger, Trimmings, Paralyzed, USDA Policy, Food Safety Regulation, Green News

Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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Food Safety Action Day (Join Us!)

Morgan Jindrich | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Safety, Senate, Salmonella, Consumers, Fda, E. Coli, Volunteering, Consumers Union, Morgan Jindrich, The Giving Life, Living News
Morgan Jindrich

This week, Make Our Food Safe, a coalition of public interest safety groups are taking the message of safe lunches to the streets.

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Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care

Thomas Frank | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Epidemics, Lyndon Johnson, E Coli, Barack Obama, New Deal, Swine Flu, Health Care Reform, Wall Street Journal, Society, Democrats, Health Care, Calvinism, Middle Ages, Uncle Sam, Home News
Thomas Frank

If universal health insurance goes down to defeat, Democrats will have to live with the shame of having been beaten by arguments that a novice debater would have no trouble putting down.

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Green News Report - July 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, India, Clean Coal, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green News Report, Smart LEDs, E. Coli, Tourism, Biomass, Fish, Missouri, Green News, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, Sustainable Seafood, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, California Budget Crisis, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...

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Green News Report - July 21, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Green Building, Factory Farms, Green News Report, Wal-Mart, E. Coli, Antibiotic Resistance, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, Uranium Mining, Fish, Cafo, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Change, Chevron, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!

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Killer Cookie Dough?

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Obama Administration, Food Safety, Nestle Cookie Dough Recall, Salmonella, Fda, E. Coli, Living News
Michael F. Jacobson

While the government conducts daily inspections of factories that churns out meat and poultry products, it can take five years before the FDA inspects a spinach farm or a peanut-processing plant.

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Food Cops Get More Ammo With Obama's New Food Safety Rules

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Regulation, Food Poisoning, Salmonella, New Food Safety Rules, Fda, Fda Rules, E. Coli, Food Politics, Green News

WASHINGTON — The White House is trying to make Americans' food safer after recent recalls of popular products like peanut butter and cookie doug...

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Sushi - Fresh or Frozen? The Answer May Surprise You

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Staph, Srini Pillay, Food Contamination, Fresh, Srinivasan Pillay, Restaurants, Health, Frozen, Sushi, Bacteria, E. Coli, Food-Borne Diseases, Wellness, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

I am not a sushi fan. However, since many of my friends are, I have been more open to trying it out.

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Food, Inc.'s Robert Kenner Discusses What Gives Him Goosebumps, and What Gives Him Hope

Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Farming, Veggie Libel Laws, Industrial-Food-System, Robert Kenner, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Fda, Obesity, Monsanto, Barack Obama, E. Coli, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Obesity Epidemic, Joel Salatin, Sustainability, Food Safety, Eric Schlosser, Green News
Louise McCready

Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.

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Aw, Nuts: The FDA Pistachio Scare Nightmare

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Health and Human Services, Salmonella, Fda, Pistachios-Salmonella, Pistachios, E. Coli, Diarrhea, Contamination, Sarah Palin, International Space Station, Usda, Pistachios-Recall, Bacteria, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Politics, Health, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.

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E. Coli Season Is Coming: Check Your Burgers

ABC News | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/story?id=7080622&page=1 | Posted 04.14.2009 | Home

Read More: E Coli Season, Food Health, E Coli, Food Safety, Fda, Home News

Food safety officials are gearing up for E. coli season, the period each year when the potentially deadly bug starts to show up more often in ground b...

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Serving Sickness to School Kids

Michael Markarian | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Salmonella, Usda, Animals, E. Coli, School Lunches, Downer Cows, Agriculture, Food Production, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Lax agency enforcement of humane slaughter rules continues to allow unacceptable abuse of animals and food safety risks.

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USDA Admits There's "No Magic Bullet" To Preventing Meat Contamination

New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Usda, Contaminated Meat, Cattle, Jack in the Box, Tyson Fresh Meat, Cargill Meat Solutions, Agriculture Department, E. Coli, Business News

Late last month, the Agriculture Department announced its 20th recall of beef this year because of contamination with a toxic strain of the bacterium ...

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Topps Meat Shuts Down After Huge Beef Recall

AP | Jeffrey Gold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Frozen Foods, Topps Meat, Meat Recall, E. Coli, Business News

Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67...

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Dole Recalls Bagged Salads For E. Coli Risk

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bagged Salad, Voluntary Recall, E. Coli, Dole Foods, Business News

A division of Dole Food Co. issued an international recall of bagged salad Monday after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E. c...

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