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Health & Wellness News tagged with food safety

Food-Safety Bill Spurs Backlash
Health & Wellness  (tags: farming, regulations, food safety, investigation, risks, safety, government )

Michelle
- 131 days ago - online.wsj.com
Legislation to overhaul the nation's food-safety system has spurred a backlash from livestock and grain farmers who don't want the Food and Drug Administration inspecting farms.
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Those 50 and Older Most Vulnerable to Food Illnesses
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, research, study, science, Food Safety, illness, prevention )

Dee
- 229 days ago - usatoday.com
Doctors thought children under 4 were more at risk because cases involving young kids are seen at much higher rates, says CDC epidemiologist Kavita Trivedi. But that could be because parents "get more nervous and so take their kids in," she says.
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Pistachios Recalled in U.S. Due to Salmonella Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: food safety, healthy eating, healthy living, wellness )

Past
- 238 days ago - reuters.com
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said several illnesses had been reported that may be associated with the contaminated pistachios.
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How Codex Alimentarius Promotes Pesticides- WARNING
Health & Wellness  (tags: Food safety, freedoms, lies, death, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', usa, usa, government, crime, bushadministration, obama, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, disease, drugs, environment, protection, prevention, risks, healthcare, warning, cancer )

Elderberr
- 354 days ago - healthfreedomusa.org
Instead of encouraging a move toward a sustainable, sane, economically viable, toxin-free, organic agricultural system, Codex Alimentarius says, in effect"Put more pesticides on crops along with more antibiotics in food animals. When you get sick from all
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Dear Mr. President-Elect -- Rethink Food & Agriculture Policies: Organic Food! Food Sovereignty! Food Safety! Factory Farms!
Health & Wellness  (tags: American, world, food system, political agenda, agriculture, policy, sustainable, farming, health, food safety, sovereignty, prices, availabilty, quality, organic, food riots, World Bank, IMF, world's farmers, consumers, factory farms, global warmin )

Alba
- 369 days ago - fooddemocracy.wordpress.com
You're probably thinking that eating organic food in White House carries a political risk. You can easily deflect charge of elitism leveled at sustainable-food movement. Reform our food system! Help us take control of family dinner & our diet back from...
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More Tainted Eggs From China
Health & Wellness  (tags: poison, melamine, eggs, China, Food Safety )

Clever
- 392 days ago - nytimes.com
Hong Kong for the 2nd time in a week they have found a batch of eggs imported from China that contain high levels of melamine, the same industrial chemical that has been blamed for contaminating China's milk supplies. Terrorists couldn't do more damage...
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Long-Term Medical Consequences Tied to Food-Borne Pathogens
Health & Wellness  (tags: food poisoning, e.coli, salmonella, medical research, food safety, disease )

RC
- 448 days ago - washingtonpost.com
E. coli, campylobacter, salmonella & other pathogens cause misery in their acute stages, but medical research is now linking food-borne pathogens to long-term afflictions with serious consequences that surface long after the acute stage has subsided.
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Behind the Scenes at a Food Riot
Health & Wellness  (tags: Raj Patel, starvation, surfism, capitalism, food crisis, Food Safety, family, health, wealthy, modern problem, hunger, G8, warning, society, prevention, nutrition, illness, food, diet )

Gregory
- 493 days ago - stuffedandstarved.org
VIDEO:The Take -- is well worth watching, has turned his attention to the struggles around rice in Haiti. Here, in seventeen minutes, is one of the best treatments of the recent food riots in Haiti, and their long history.
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Europe-Wide Food Colour Ban Call
Health & Wellness  (tags: Europe, food safety, artificial chemicals, food dyes, allergens )

Rooibos
- 594 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A food safety watchdog has called for a Europe-wide ban on six artificial food colourings after research found a link with hyperactivity in children. A total ban on the use of the colours would have to be agreed by the EU.
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Eating Soy Foods In Puberty Protects Against Breast Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: Diet And Health, Food Safety, Food-Agriculture, Health Cancer )

Barry
- 594 days ago - opednews.com
Evidence is growing from animal and human studies that genistein, a potent chemical found in soy, protects against development of breast cancer - but only if consumed during puberty.
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Largest Meat Recall in US HIstory - Hallmark Meat Packing AGAIN!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Hallmark Meat Packing, Wetsland, beef recall, food safety, diseased animals )

RC
- 647 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The Food & Drug Administration has ordered a massive recall of 143 million pounds of beef, Hallmarrk's entire production for 2 years. Despite the recall, the FDA doesn't think the recall is a hazard to consumers because most of the meat has eaten already.
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Study Reveals Pesticides From Foods in Children's Bodies
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, Food Safety, Pesticdes )

Davida
- 652 days ago - organicconsumers.org
A new peer-reviewed study found levels of nerve-gas like pesticides in the bodies of children who eat conventional foods. Organophosphates were designed during WWII specifically to kill humans and later evolved into commonly used pesticides for food crops
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Contaminated Chinese-Made Dumplings Sicken 10... Intentionally?
Health & Wellness  (tags: china, food, contamination, illness, poisoning, pesticide, china, japan, investigation, risks, food safety, import )

Vanessa
- 654 days ago - macon.com
Tests for the contaminants dichlorvos and methamidophos showed levels too high to be accidental, officials say. Many suspect dumplings were intentionally poisoned.
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Food Safety? What About Animal Abuse?
Health & Wellness  (tags: cows, animal abuse, slaughterhouse, Chino California, Dick Durbin, food safety )

RC
- 665 days ago - cnn.com
Graphic video of cows being cruelly abused at the Hallmark slaughterhouse has raised concerns about the safety of the meat from these suffering animals. The Humane Scoiety of the United States and Sen. Dick Durbin are warnng the FDA and the FSIS.
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F.D.A. Plans to Post Inspectors Overseas
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, food safety, imported food, government, safety, warning, FDA )

Shandril
- 669 days ago - nytimes.com
The Food and Drug Administration intends to post inspectors to embassies and consulates throughout the developing world in hopes of improving the quality of the food and medicines increasingly flowing to the United States, a top official said Thursday.
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