Category Archives: Food

72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad recalled

By doris | Published: December 6, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The discovery of hard plastic inside packages prompted a nationwide recall of 72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad, one of several recalls involving poultry and meat products issued through U.S. food safety authorities in recent days. The Suter Company is recalling 8.2-ounce packages of the “Bumble Bee Lunch on [...]

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Mayor vetoes San Francisco ban on Happy Meals with toys

By doris | Published: November 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — San Francisco, California, Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed Friday the city’s ban on most McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys. In making the veto, the mayor released a new report on how a public-private partnership is combating childhood obesity and how San Francisco’s more than 55,000 public school students are now [...]

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San Francisco bans Happy Meals with toys

By doris | Published: November 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com I thought that this is a free country. Guess not. Why not make the parents responsible for the children food they have the right to pick what the child eats. Why is it the companys  that has to make changes. But the companies should think of the public, but they do [...]

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USDA sells cheese while warning against eating it

By doris | Published: November 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 [...]

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Survivors of foodborne illness to demand action on bill

By doris | Published: September 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After the recall of more than 500 million eggs from a salmonella outbreak this summer, food safety advocates and survivors of foodborne illness will call for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that has been in limbo since last year. The groups will release a report Wednesday afternoon [...]

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Nationwide meat recall announced

By doris | Published: August 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The products were distributed to Wal-Marts nationwide, according to the USDA’s website. The meats may [...]

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Campbell Soup recalls 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs

By doris | Published: June 18, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Campbell Soup Co. is recalling nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing, the U.S. agriculture department said. The recall includes 14.75-ounce cans with a use-by date between June 2010 and December 2011 of three varieties of the product: “SpaghettiOs with Meatballs,” “SpaghettiOs A [...]

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Restaurants assure customers lettuce is safe amid recall

By doris | Published: May 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A multistate romaine lettuce recall because of fear of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria has restaurants east of the Mississippi River scrambling to assure customers that their salad is safe.

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Haiti quake gives Guantanamo new mission

By doris | Published: January 22, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea. President Barack Obama’s deadline for closing the base prison expires Friday with no new [...]

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Pythons and citrus and iguanas, oh my! Frigid Florida copes

By doris | Published: January 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Ordinarily a sunny playground that mocks the rest of winter-suffering America, Miami, Florida, was in sore need of a giant Snuggie on Sunday. There wasn’t a scantily clad beautiful person at any of the outside tables at South Beach’s tony Balans restaurant. Everyone was crammed inside to assuage their [...]

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What you need to know about multivitamins

By doris | Published: January 4, 2010

Full Story at  CNN.com In this day and age of food-on-the-go, supplements can add much-needed nutrients to your diet. But a walk down the vitamin aisle at any store could very well make your head spin. Here’s a breakdown of several of multivitamin options. Basic Multivitamins What they are: One-pill wonders that offer 100 percent [...]

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Helping the hungry with Empty Bowls

By doris | Published: December 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — In a warm, fluorescent-lit clay studio at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, students, faculty and a soft-spoken priest are embarking on a mission. Their goal: Create 500 bowls for a fundraiser to help feed the hungry. “There are over 9,000 homeless people in the nation’s capital,” [...]

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Nursing Moses: Moms step in after infant’s mother dies

By doris | Published: December 1, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com (CNN) — The day Charles Moses Martin Goodrich entered the world, a new community was conceived. As the newborn breathed in life, his mother, Susan Goodrich, began to die. Less than 12 hours after having her son, the 46-year-old mother of four was gone. The cause was a rare amniotic fluid [...]

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School helps students fend off bad times

By doris | Published: November 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) — Principal Sherrie Gahn said she was shocked when she first came to Whitney Elementary School seven years ago. “The kids were eating ketchup packets,” Gahn said. “I said to one of my teachers, ‘What on Earth are they doing?’ and she said, ‘That’s their dinner.’ “ [...]

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Half a million pounds of beef recalled on E.coli fears

By doris | Published: November 2, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNN) — A voluntary recall was announced Monday for more than half a million pounds of ground beef because it may be contaminated with bacteria linked to at least two deaths, officials said. Fairbank Farms of Ashville, New York, said the recall was issued Saturday for approximately 545,699 pounds [...]

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New Jersey Firm Recalls Ground Beef: E. coli Contamination

By doris | Published: August 24, 2009

Full Story at usrecallnews.com WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2009 – Pasha Halal Poultry, doing business as Marcacci Meats, a Vineland, N.J., establishment, is recalling approximately 128 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to [...]

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FDA sources: Proof of E. coli bacteria found at Nestle plant

By doris | Published: July 1, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Researchers were testing the bacteria to determine if it bears the same genetic fingerprint as the E. coli linked to an outbreak of illness that has affected at least 69 people in 29 states. The tainted sample was manufactured last February 10 at the Nestle Plant in Danville, said the sources, [...]

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Beef recall expanded with 18 possibly sickened

By doris | Published: June 29, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com CHICAGO – A Colorado meat company is expanding a recall of beef due to possible contamination by E.coli O157:H7 bacteria after an investigation found 18 illnesses may be linked to the meat, the company and the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Sunday. Greeley, Colorado-based JBS-Swift Beef Co is voluntarily expanding its [...]

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Toll House cookie dough recalled, linked to E. coli

By doris | Published: June 22, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com The company said it is recalling an estimated 300,000 cases of the dough as a precaution after reports of food-borne illness in 28 states. There are concerns that the premade dough may be contaminated with the bacterium E. coli 0157:H7, which causes abdominal cramping, vomiting and diarrhea, the Food and Drug [...]

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Nestlé recalls cookie dough products for E. coli

By doris | Published: June 20, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com SOLON, Ohio – Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart — packaged raw cookie dough. The federal Centers for Disease Control said its preliminary investigation shows “a strong association” between eating raw refrigerated [...]

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