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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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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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Green News Report - August 27, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Fracking, Dairy, Green News, Salmonella, Green News Report, Hydraulic-Fracturing, Mpg, Atrazine, Water, Africa, Electric Cars, Oil, Cash for Clunkers, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Happy Anniversaries -- sort of; The Politics of "Fracking"; How about some weed-killer in your drinking water?... PLUS: Another sad loss for the environment... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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Cargill, The School Lunch Program And The Latest Beef Recall

Grist | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Cargill, Beef Recall, Food, Salmonella, Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella, Food Politics, Green News

As I reported last week, a large-scale California beef-packing plant owned by Cargill churned out, packaged up, and distributed widely some 830,000 po...

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Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Recall Of 800,000 Pounds Of Beef

Yahoo News | Steve Gorman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Salmonella, Colorado Salmonella, Salmonella Outbreak Beef, Ground Beef Recall, Salmonella Outbreak, Denver News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 21 people in Colorado and 10 other U.S. states have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall o...

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Salmonella Warning: State Advises Caution When Eating Ground Beef

The Denver Post | Posted 09.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Salmonella Warning, Salmonella, Colorado Salmonella, Ground Beef Colorado, Salmonella Warning Colorado, CO Salmonella, Colorado State Health Officials, Denver News

For the second time in a month, state health officials are warning of a salmonella outbreak. The Colorado Department of Health on Friday urged Colorad...

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14 Sickened In Colorado With Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Burgers, With a Side of Flame Retardants

Grist | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farmed Beef, Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Meat Production, Meat Industry, Food Politics, Food, Green News

Here's the latest: In Colorado, 14 people have fallen ill from hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistent salmonella, the Boulder newspaper Dail...

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Finally Food Safety is the Main Course

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Eggs, Chicken, Shopping Tips, Prevention, Contamination, Exports, Consumer Confidence, Food Safety, Salmonella, Consumer Protection, Simple Steps From NRDC, Food Safety Regulation, Safe Handling, Living News
Wendy Gordon

The bill gives the FDA broad new powers to regulate produce at the farm level and review corporate records on activities ranging from food-processing to pathogen-testing.

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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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Pistachios and Passover Mixed Nuts Recalled Over Salmonella Fears

AP | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Salmonella, Salmonella Scare, Mixed Nuts, Pistachios, Pistachios Salmonella, Health, Illinois Nut and Candy Company, Chicago News

SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) -- A Skokie company is recalling pistachios and mixed nuts that contain pistachios because of concerns about possible salmonella con...

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Salmonella Confirmed In Pistachio Plant That Sparked Nation-Wide Recall

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmonella, Salmonella in Pistachios, Pistachios, Pistachio Nut Recall, Health, Fresno-California, Living News

FRESNO, Calif. — Federal officials confirmed Monday they found traces of salmonella in a central California pistachio processing plant that spar...

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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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Pistachio Recall: Setton Pistachio Sends Out Information

Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Sunkist Pistachios, Salmonella and Pistachios, Pistachios Recall, Pistachio Recall, Salmonella, Fda, Sunkist Pistachio Recall, Setton Pistachio, Pistachio Food Poisoning, Pistachios, Sunkist Pistachios Recall, Terra Bella-California, Green News

Setton Pistachio sent out this press release Tuesday, announcing its recall of pistachio bags over Salmonella fears. Scroll down for the press release...

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Pistachio Salmonella Risk: FDA Urges Caution

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Nuts, Food, Salmonella, Pistachios Salmonella, Pistachios, Peanuts, Fresno-California, Green News

TERRA BELLA, Calif. — It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they...

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Promise in the Pipeline: Is it Pay Day for Burks' Patented Peanut Protein?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Royalty, Revenue, Food Politics, New York Times, Cure, Salmonella, Wesley Burks, Peanut Butter, Tara Parker Pope, Peanut Allergies, Liability, Patents, Business News
Robyn O'Brien

As doctors bring their inventions to market, we should consider the health implications, liabilities and costs associated with exposing our children to yet another novel protein and synthetic substance before the long term health consequences have been evaluated.

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Food Banks: Peanut Butter Salmonella Toss Out

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella, Food Banks Salmonella, Food Banks Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Peanut Butter, Business News

CHICAGO — Food banks nationwide are being forced to toss thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products recalled in the salmonella outbr...

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Peanut Corp. Of America Files For Bankruptcy

AP | KATE BRUMBACK and GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella, Bankruptcy, Peanut Corp of America, Peanut Corp, Business News

ATLANTA — The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut...

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Make Your Own Peanut Butter And Rest Easier

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Food, Salmonella, Green Living, Peanut Butter, Giy, Green News

I am peanut butter crazy. With no exaggeration, I can eat a jar of peanut butter by the spoonfuls, just like ice cream. If you like peanut butter as m...

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Stewart Parnell, Peanut Corp Owner, Refuses To Testify To Congress In Salmonella Hearing

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 03.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Stewart Parnell, Salmonella, Peanut Corp, Congress, Peanut Corporation, Peanut Corp. Of America, Salmonella Hearing, Home News

WASHINGTON — See the jar, the congressman challenged Stewart Parnell, holding up a container of the peanut seller's products and asking if he'd ...

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Can You Compost Tainted Peanut Butter?

Grist | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Composting, Salmonella, Green Living, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Recall, Green News

Treat your tainted peanut products as you would treat unwanted raw chicken bits. If you are fortunate enough to have a recalled product in hand rather...

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FEMA Food Given To Storm Victims May Have Salmonella Peanut Butter

cnn.com | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Kentucky Storm, Kentucky FEMA, Salmonella, Fema, Peanut Butter, Extreme Weather, Arkansas FEMA, Arkansas Storm, Green News

Food kits recently distributed as part of a disaster relief effort in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain peanut butter contaminated with salmonella lin...

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Rat Found Roasting In Salmonella-Infected Peanut Plant

CBS | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Peanut, Salmonella, Rat, Peanut Butter, Roaches, Health, Salmonella Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Corporation, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Peanut Butter Recall, Business News

(CBS) A former employee of the Georgia peanut plant at the center of a criminal investigation in a nationwide salmonella outbreak says he saw a rat dr...

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Kellogg's Recalls Cookies, Bars On Peanut Butter Salmonella Scare

AP | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Food, Salmonella, Recall, Peanut Butter, Special K Recall, Peanut Buter Recall, Keebler Recall, Peanut Buter Salmonella, Keebler Soft Batch Recall, Kelloggs, Special K, Special K Protein Meal Bar, Business News

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Kellogg Co. said Monday it is recalling some Keebler Cookies and Special K Meal Bars and expand some previous product reca...

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Salmonella is a Bad Fairy Tale -- Really Bad!

Nancy Chuda | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Autism, Salmonella, Peanut Butter Crackers Recall, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Recall, Living News
Nancy Chuda

Salmonella may as well be referred to as "the bad witch of the south," she's in your kids lunchbox and maybe even their brains. Imagine if you will ...

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