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Red Lobster Customer Sues Over 'Poison Beer'

2013-05-15T13:29:15Z

Panama City resident Justin Grogg discovered that you can accidentally ingest far worse poisons than alcohol while drinking beer. Like potassium hydroxide.

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Food Integrity Campaign: USDA Poultry Inspector Speaks Out Against Hazardous Chemical Use

2013-05-13T18:16:56Z

Committed to bringing awareness to consumers and others working in her sector, Sherry Medina recently made the courageous decision to blow the whistle on Big Ag's liberal and unrestricted application of hazardous chemicals in poultry processing.

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Seth Shulman: Got Science? ALEC Threatens Food Safety With 'Ag Gag' Laws

2013-05-13T14:37:06Z

Ironically, "ag-gag" laws are being pushed at a time of heightened public concerns about healthy eating and the safety of the food supply. Nonetheless, ALEC's strategy, while receiving relatively little press, has proved alarmingly successful so far.

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Chris Hunt: The Arsenic in Your Chicken

2013-05-13T13:31:12Z

Why would anyone feed arsenic to chickens? Last week, a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future provided further evidence of the risks associated with arsenicals in animal agriculture. It's an entirely unnecessary threat to public health.

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Elizabeth Kucinich: Mothers of Pure Food, Rebirthing a Movement

2013-05-10T13:51:52Z

This Mother's Day, let us remember mothers and women who understood the patriotic nature of standing up for wholesome food, of standing up for the health of young children who would become our future.

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'China Has Been Unable To Clean Up Its Food Supply Chain'

2013-05-03T09:04:13Z

BEIJING — Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country's lates...

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Liz Neumark: Foodies With Worries

2013-04-26T18:12:45Z

How safe is our food? How does the FDA monitor domestic food products (as well as what comes into the U.S. food system from other countries?)

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Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Don't Let Food Safety Reform Go Down the Disposal

2013-04-26T16:14:21Z

While many worthy policies and programs need funding, it's hard to think of any more universally necessary than protecting our nation's food supply. The sequestration means, however, the FDA will be forced to reduce the number of inspections it conducts.

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Michael F. Jacobson: Risky Meat: Will Your Meal Send You To The Hospital?

2013-04-24T13:16:02Z

We decided to analyze outbreak data to answer the question: What are the riskiest -- and the safest -- meat and poultry products? Which foods are most likely to make us sick and cause the most severe cases of illness?

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FDA 'Unlawfully Withheld' Long-Delayed Food Safety Rules

2013-04-23T19:28:19Z

The Food and Drug Administration has officially broken the law by failing to release regulations needed to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act...

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Connecticut Lawmakers Mull BPA Bill

2013-04-16T12:29:57Z

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban food packaging containing the plastics chemical, bisphenol A, unl...

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Beverly Bell: Small Farms Fight Back: Food and Community Self-Governance

2013-04-15T17:34:56Z

Blue Hill is one of a handful of small Maine towns that have been taking bold steps to protect their local food system. In 2011, they passed an ordinance exempting their local farmers and food producers from federal and state licensure requirements when these farmers sell directly to customers.

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Zester Daily: Well-Meaning Urban Food Initiative Needs Common Sense

2013-04-15T10:26:00Z

Supermarkets throw out about $47 billion worth of food each year, much of it still safe and healthy.

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Ben Droz: Eat-In at the FDA

2013-04-10T22:45:40Z

Whatever your thoughts on GMO foods or GMO fish, whether you eat them or avoid them, please take action. f you don't, the FDA will continue to spend American tax dollars asking the wrong questions.

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Poultry Giant Settles Suit Over Toxic Gas

2013-04-05T13:44:08Z

Meat processor Tyson Foods has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over allegations that the company violated safety regulations at ...

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SidneyAnne Stone: GMOs Gotta Go!

2013-04-01T18:05:31Z

It becomes very disheartening to those of us actually trying to live a genuinely healthy lifestyle only to find out that the fruits and vegetables you've been consuming may well be as bad for you as the red meat you've been avoiding.

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Agencies Axe Food Safety Requirement Aimed To Prevent 1 Million Illnesses A Year

2013-03-26T18:18:46Z

At the very beginning of 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its proposals for the most important food safety regulations in a genera...

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The Center for Public Integrity: Worker suffocations persist as grain storage soars, employers flout safety rules

2013-03-25T09:40:44Z

By Jim Morris and Howard BerkesThe Center for Public IntegrityMT. CARROLL, Ill. - Will Piper and Alex Pacas were being buried alive.It was July 28, ...

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Chris Meyer: An Agenda to Make Sure Consumers are Heard

2013-03-19T11:36:35Z

Eight of the nation's leading consumer groups are calling on President Obama and Congress to give consumers a greater voice in Washington.

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Nasima Hossain: In the Public Interest: Meat Industry Admits We Need Food Inspectors

2013-03-08T14:35:17Z

In truth, the meat industry is scared of the legal implications of sequestration -- without the necessary food safety inspectors, meat and poultry plants may have to close temporarily, and closing means losing profits.

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Chemical Creep: 'We Just Don't Know Where The Contamination Is Coming From'

2013-03-07T15:20:00Z

Brent Collett already had some inklings about the pervasiveness of hormone-mimicking chemicals such as phthalates and Bisphenol-A (BPA).

He knew, ...

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Michael F. Jacobson: Sweet Nothings

2013-03-04T12:31:45Z

The time has come for the Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate the safety of sugary drinks. That's what the Center for Science in the Public Interest, several dozen nutrition experts, seven local health departments, and 15 nonprofit organizations have asked the FDA to do.

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SmarterTravel: 7 Foods To Avoid On The Road

2013-03-03T09:10:00Z

Contaminated water is one of the world's leading causes of illness.

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Linda Watson: Tell the FDA You Eat It Raw

2013-02-28T11:35:18Z

What should farmers do to make sure fruits and vegetables are safe to eat? That's the question at the core of listening sessions being held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency is seeking comments on the proposed new Food Safety Modernization Act rules.

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Michele Simon: Top 10 Reasons to Care About Food Workers

2013-02-21T11:52:27Z

Maybe this number alone will convince you: 20 million workers toil every day -- often under inhumane conditions -- harvesting fields, packing boxes, driving trucks, cooking meals, ringing up orders, serving tables, and cleaning up your mess.

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