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I tell ya, the FDA is not smelling like a rose lately…
FDA: Is the Tomato to Blame for Salmonella Outbreak? Is It Not?…
Three weeks after the Food and Drug Administration first warned consumers to avoid certain types of tomatoes for fear they would carry an uncommon type of Salmonella, known as Saintpaul, the number of [...]

A recent poll shows that 53 percent of Americans say they won’t purchase foods that have been genetically modified. But many Americans are unaware that they already do.

By LIBBY QUAID AP Food and Farm Writer
WASHINGTON Apr 11, 2006 (AP)— Two soft-drink companies were sued Tuesday by parents complaining that there might be cancer-causing benzene in kids’ drinks.
Attorneys filed class-action lawsuits against the companies in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston and Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee, Fla. They accused Polar Beverages Inc. [...]

New York Times:
By Melanie Warner
WHEN Dr. Morando Soffritti, a cancer researcher in Bologna, Italy, saw the results of his team’s seven-year study on aspartame, he knew he was about to be injected into a bitter controversy over this sweetener, one of the most contentiously debated substances ever added to foods and beverages.
Aspartame is sold under [...]

Discover.com:
A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely
By Karen Wright
Let’s start with a straightforward fact: Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the fish in [...]

Read the numbers on your fruit - megnut.com
Another little tidbit gleaned from April’s Food & Wine: those sticker numbers on your fruit actually mean something. Here in the US, fruit often comes with stickers on it, sometimes telling you where it’s from and/or what it is. There’s also a number, but I never [...]

Source: ENN: Environmental News Network
August 10, 2005 — By United Steel Workers
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Citing growing public health concerns, the United Steelworkers (USW) union has informed major carpet cleaning retailers and wholesalers, fast food chains and major retail clothing companies that they may have “a legal duty to warn” their customers about potential harmful effects [...]

The Guardian:
The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing “as a matter of high priority” the results of a large new study into aspartame, the artificial sweetener consumed by millions of people worldwide and used in more than 6,000 food and drink products.
Researchers at the Ramazzini Institute for cancer research in Italy say their study shows [...]

Interesting study. But if you read further down in the article, you will see the numbers. The study counts ALL produce in one category but beef, poultry, seafood and eggs each gets its own category. If you count animal proteins together, there were nearly twice as many outbreaks as there were for produce.
I’m just sayin’.
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