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NEWS ABOUT: spinach

spinach stories: 6 news summaries

All That Folic Acid May Give You Cancer

Fortified cereals, breads, vitamins could overwhelm your liver

Aug 29, 09 6:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Health experts once trumpeted folic acid, but now warn against taking too much of a good thing, the Economist reports. For more than 10 years, aspiring mothers have been told to down double the recommended dose with vitamin pills, and some countries have added folic acid to grain products. It's... More »

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European Union • spinach • oranges • folic acid • pregnant women • fortified

After E. Coli Outbreaks, Food Industry Looks to Tracing Tech

Labeling system would pinpoint the source

Aug 3, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the wake of health scares like the 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to tainted spinach, the food industry is scrambling to reassure the public—and hoping to head off a congressional response, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Voluntary efforts are under way to make tracing easier. For example,... More »

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E. coli • FDA • spinach • produce • food industry • HarvestMark

 Farmers Hunt Wildlife 
 to Keep Greens Clean 

E. coli scare prompts extreme measures in 'America's Salad Bowl'

Sep 2, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - To please cautious companies, farmers have turned hunters in California's Salinas River Valley, where 60% of the nation's lettuce grows. They’re stalking wild pigs, poisoning ponds and erecting fences—disrupting wildlife and destroying habitats in the process—to avoid another E. coli contamination, the AP reports. But some question... More »

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E. coli • cattle • food contamination • spinach • wildlife • farmers

Spinach, Eggs Fight Blindness

Nutrients help ward off age-related vision loss

Sep 11, 07 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nutrients found in spinach and eggs help stave off age-related blindness, a new study shows. Macular degeneration, the most common cause of vision loss in the elderly, was 35% less likely to develop in people who consumed the most eggs, spinach, and other leafy greens, which are rich in lutein... More »

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eggs • spinach • blindness • macular degeneration • carotenoids

Producer Recalls 68K Pounds of Calif. Spinach

Metz Fresh finds salmonella in sample during routine testing

Aug 30, 07 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California produce company is recalling over 68K pounds of bagged spinach after a sample taken from one of the company's packing plants tested positive for salmonella, the San Jose Mercury News reports. But Metz Fresh has likely averted a repeat of last year's contaminated spinach mess, corralling 90% of... More »

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food • California • spinach • safety • contamination • Metz Fresh

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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