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2002 Special Food Safety Edition
Table of Contents How safe is our food supply ? Lead finds its way into… -
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Plenty
Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around… -
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Senate moves ahead on food safety bill
The Senate moved forward Wednesday on long-awaited legislation that would overhaul the nation’s food safety system, grant new powers to the Food and Drug Administration and make farmers and processors responsible for preventing food-borne illness. … -
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FDA bans some food imports from Japan
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it would halt imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation. The F.D.A. said those foods will be… -
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Save money by not letting your food go to waste
Americans waste an estimated 14 percent to 40 percent of the food produced for their consumption. It happens in fields, in stores and in your kitchen. That’s bad for the environment and it can be… -
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McDonald’s y Burger King, las peores hamburguesas de Estados Unidos
Tienen fama de hincharse a hamburguesas. Al fin y al cabo es la comida nacional de los estadounidenses, aunque de acuerdo a una encuesta de Consumer Reports, ni McDonald’s ni Burger King ni Wendys son… -
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Raw oysters still a health threat, GAO report finds
Federal regulators have failed to solve a serious health problem involving raw oysters, which are the most common source of seafood-related death in the country, according to a new report from a government watchdog group.… -
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Mystery fish- The label said red snapper, the lab said baloney
Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, $5 billion more than in 2009, but they aren’t always buying what they think they are. More than one-fifth of 190 pieces of seafood we bought at… -
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Food prices likely to remain high as corn supply lags
The Department of Agriculture estimated Friday that farmers will have 848 million bushels of corn on hand at the end of next summer. That’s up less than 1 percent from last month’s forecast. Next year’s… -
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Is ‘pink slime’ in your burger?
All this angst over “pink slime” has made one thing clear: We don’t always know what we’re getting when we bite into a big juicy burger. Which leaves unanswered some of the most basic questions… -
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Wendy’s changes treatment of chicken and pigs
The company’s animal welfare council said Friday that one of its chicken suppliers, O.K. Foods of Ft. Smith, Ark., has started using a low-atmospheric pressure system that renders the chickens unconscious before the birds are… -
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USDA to test beef for more strains of E. coli
While most of the outbreaks that have riveted the public for nearly two decades involved one strain of E. coli, the government will soon outlaw another six strains in the same family of bacteria. Next…
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