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Food Safety Questioned After Salmonella Recall
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(March 4) -- Remember last year when the Peanut Corp. of America recalled its salmonella-tainted peanuts? For more than a month, hundreds of food processors throughout North America -- makers of candy, cookies, snacks and 1,000 or more other edibles -- added their brand names to the Food and Drug Administration's list of peanut-containing items that shouldn't be eaten. At the time, people questioned why the FDA didn't pay closer attention to food that was going to be used in countless other products. The agency's answer then was: It can't. basicfoodflavors.com Salmonella was found in a ...
White House Names Official to Improve Food Safety
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Obama administration has filled a new position at the Food and Drug Administration charged with overseeing the agency's nutrition programs and organizing its food safety system. Michael R. Taylor was appointed Wednesday as deputy commissioner for foods, the New York Times reported. Taylor has a long career in foods, having worked at the FDA, the Department of Agriculture, Monsanto and in academia. His biggest job will be uniting the nation's disjointed food safety network, which is split among 13 separate agencies that oversee emergencies like product recalls. Legislation expected to ...
Study Questions Safety of BPA in Canned Foods
By David Knowles - AOL NewsOpening a can of soup on a cold winter day is a time-honored tradition in America. It may also prove harmful to your health, according to a new study. In the study released by Consumer Reports, canned soup, tuna, juice and green beans have all been found to contain potentially dangerous levels of bisphenol A, a man-made chemical preservative that increases shelf-life. Hundreds of scientific, peer-reviewed studies have suggested health risks from exposure to the chemical, known as BPA, including increased incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disorders, breast cancer and ...
Can You Trust Your Burger?
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyWith the exception of the vegetarians among us, most of us love to sink our teeth into a big, juicy, beef burger now and then. Perhaps we are satisfying some primal desire when we do this. Apparently, we may also taking a big gamble with our health. On Sunday, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold story about a 22-year-old dance instructor named Stephanie Smith who suffered severe E. coli poisoning in 2007 after eating a hamburger that her mother had grilled. According to the story, the food poisoning "ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed." It's unlikely that she ...
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