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General Mills announced that their subsidiary Muir Glen will no longer use Bisphenol A (BPA) tainted cans for their organic tomatoes. What companies will follow suit?
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Food Safety Attorney Bill Marler’s blog is reporting that S.510 has been scheduled for a vote.
Peter Hurley, whose son Jacob almost died from food poisoning, is featured on NPR’s The Story. Listen. It will make you want to call your Senator today.
Michael Moss and members of The New York Times Staff won the 2010 Pulitzer for relentlessly covering food safety issues.
Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary at the Agriculture Department, sat down with The Washington Post to discuss the agency’s eight-year-old National Organics Program and the challenges ahead for the organics market, which is growing as much as 20 percent a year.
76 Cattle Industry Groups Are Calling for Stronger Protections Against Mad Cow Disease
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For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo is being crafted by white-coated scientists toiling in pristine labs, rearranging atoms into chemical particles never before seen.
(Free Subscription Needed) Perdue Farms Inc. in Washington, Ind. is recalling about 10,368 pounds of fresh sweet Italian turkey sausage products because they contain an undeclared allergen, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.
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