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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: food safety

food safety stories: 50 news summaries

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Product Safety Boss Balks at Beefing Up Penalties

Says no to more leverage, staff, funding

Oct 30, 07 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't like a Senate bill that would give her agency more clout, the Times reports. Nancy Nord opposes a measure that would amp up penalties for violators, smooth the public reporting of tainted products, protect whistleblowers, and ease prosecution. It would also... More »

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food safety • Consumer Product Safety Commission • lead tainted toys • Nancy Nord • Mark Pryor

Scary Surge
in Kid Food Allergies

Peanut allergies in young children
doubled in 5 years

Oct 28, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Behind the fear of life-threatening peanut allergies stand astounding statistics: between 1997 and 2002, peanut allergies doubled in children under the age of 5. Other childhood food allergies are also skyrocketing, with allergists seeing more children with multiple sensitivities that seem to be lingering longer than they did in the... More »

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banned foods • children • food safety • allergy • childbirth • children's health care

Dole Recalls Lettuce in
E. Coli Scare

Bacteria discovered
in salad mix distributed in US and Canada

Sep 18, 07 5:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dole recalled bags of salad yesterday after some of the lettuce tested positive for E. coli in Canada. The bags of Hearts Delight salad were sold throughout the US and Canada and had an expiration date of Sept. 19. There have been no reports of illness, and Dole officials said... More »

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food • E. coli • food safety • recall • Dole • lettuce

In Countdown to 2008 Olympics, Beijing Besieged

Pollution, human
rights, food safety issues all draw fire

Aug 7, 07 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics begins tomorrow, activists and Olympic organizers alike have been vocal in their concerns about the host city. The government is under fire for press harassment: journalists were detained for several hours yesterday after a Reporters Without Borders conference, and six Free Tibet... More »

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China • human rights • pollution • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • food safety • Hu Jintao • Tibet • journalist • Olympic Games • air pollution

Companies Cash In on Food Scare

As fears about imports from China mount, premium products flourish

Jul 23, 07 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The contaminated-import crisis, set off when potentially dangerous products from China turned up on the shelves of pet stores, supermarkets, and drugstores, has meant bigger profits for clever companies. BusinessWeek looks at several strategies: using only fresh, local ingredients in premium products; finding ingredients from somewhere other than China; and... More »

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China • food • consumer confidence • food safety • consumer goods • consumer products

Hot Dog Chili Sauce Recalled in Botulism Scare

Four hospitalized in Texas & Indiana

Jul 19, 07 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal officials have ordered a recall of certain brands of hot dog chili sauce after they were linked to four cases of botulism in Texas and Indiana. It's not clear how widely the brands were distributed, but the recall includes 10-ounce cans of Castleberry's, Austex and Kroger hot dog chili... More »

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food safety • food scare • chili sauce • botulism

Toothpaste Scare Widens—Again

Tainted tubes from China turn up
in Georgia prisons, hospitals

Jun 28, 07 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese toothpaste scare is far from over and is more than just a scare. Tainted tubes have turned up, as expected, in discount stores—but officials have also found them in institutions such as prisons and hospitals, the Times reports. Nearly 1 million tubes containing varying amounts of a... More »

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China • food • Florida • toothpaste • Georgia • chemicals • food safety • tainted toothpaste • safety • contamination

China Closes 180 Food Plants

Dangerous chemicals added to products from candy to pickles; most not exported

Jun 28, 07 3:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government has shut down 180 food manufacturing plants for racking up a whopping 23,000 violations in the last six months, most of them for using chemicals and industrial materials as food fillers to cut costs. Almost all were small and unlicensed, making it unlikely their products, worth... More »

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China • food • chemicals • food safety • safety • contamination

China Shutters Scores of
Food Factories

Crackdown spreads to plants using industrial chemicals in edibles

Jun 27, 07 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government has closed 180 factories that were using dangerous and illegal ingredients, such as formaldehyde, in food products. The relatively large number of plants casts serious doubt on Beijing's insistence that the recent rash of tainted products originated with a small number of sources, the AP reports: A... More »

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China • food • melamine • toothpaste • chemicals • food safety

FDA Knew About Food Dangers

Overwhelmed food-safety arm didn't follow up on peanut butter, spinach

Apr 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA knew for years about problems at the peanut butter plant and spinach farms that led to major disease outbreaks, but took minimal steps to redress them. The agency's food safety arm can't keep up with the explosion in the amount of food it is supposed to regulate, the ... More »

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food • FDA • health • food safety • spinach • Robert Brackett • safety

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