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August 2009

  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:09am

    Unclear wording and inconsistencies are just a couple problems with many documents published by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, according to a recent study by researchers at Kansas State University.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:08am

    Doug Powell's blog about barf may make you a little queasy, but that's OK with him. Powell, an associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University, hopes his use of new media and in-your-face -- and sometimes nauseating -- messages will be enough to change behaviors that lead to the spread of food-borne illnesses.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Topeka Capital-Journal CJOnline.com
  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:07am

    An unlicensed ice-cream seller in Chester is battling with food safety officers. Marcus Conder, 45, of Flagg Lane, Upton, literally decided to get on his bike and look for work after he was made unemployed. Mr Conder has accepted he is operating illegally but is claiming he would not get a street trader’s licence because numbers are strictly controlled.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Chester Chronicle
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:03am

    For the last two months, Green Truck mobile catering services would park on Wilshire Boulevard along Los Angeles' Miracle Mile and serve handmade organic fare to the neighborhood's lunch crowd. "It was wonderful," said Bobby Allen, general manger of the Culver City-based company. "We had a line of people every day."

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Los Angeles Times
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:02am

    Almost three years ago the government legislated on the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) system for the food industry – and while a new standard, ISO 22000, is being implemented around the globe - the local food industry has been “alarmingly slow” on the uptake, creating a dangerous situation for consumers.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Supermarket Online
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:01am

    Koraput Orissa -- Four tribals, including a 12-year-old girl, died due to suspected food poisoning after drinking mango juice at a remote village in Orissa's Koraput district, official sources said today.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Press Trust of India
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 9:00am

    Sending bobby calves containing a prohibited drug to the works has earned a Waimate dairy farm company a record-breaking $6,000 fine in a case brought by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA).

    Date Published: 
    24.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    NZFSA
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:59am

    Date notified to NZFSA: 21 August 2009 Food Product: Sausage meat Name of Product: The Valley Sausage Company Sausage Meat Package Description & Size: 500 gram tubes Identification: Batch 3395 Use By Date 24 August 2009 NZ Distribution: Lower North Island Overseas Distribution: Nil

    Date Published: 
    21.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    NZFSA
  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:58am

    Reporting from Oakland - Leftovers from San Francisco Bay Area restaurants may soon help power the region. The East Bay Municipal Utility District has created a program, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, to generate electricity from the methane gas produced by food decomposition.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Los Angeles Times
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:57am

    A group of Danish researchers has found a new test for foot and mouth disease that can save millions of cattle by determining whether anti-bodies are from the disease or a vaccination, according to videnskab.dk. Foot and mouth disease is one of the most contagious and feared cattle diseases and in 2001 cost the lives of eight million cattle in Britain alone.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Politiken
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:57am

    Dickson D. Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University who is writing a book about vertical farms, writes in this op-ed that if climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:56am

     On Thursday, Gary Locke, the secretary of commerce, approved a plan that would prohibit commercial fishing in a huge swath of American waters in the Arctic that have never been actively fished and that nobody is much interested in fishing now.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:55am

    The battle of the beet — the genetically modified sugar beet — is set to be fought before the Boulder County commissioners Tuesday. A proposal to allow six farmers to plant the genetically altered crop on 960 acres of county land has divided the community.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Denver Post
  • Posted: August 24th, 2009 - 8:53am

    NAIROBI, KENYA -- Although agriculture, particularly in the developing world, is often associated with massive deforestation, scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre demonstrated today, in a study using detailed satellite imagery, that almost half of all farmed landscapes worldwide include significant tree cover.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    World Agroforestry Centre
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  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:10pm

    His entire life, Kenneth Birkes has worked seven days a week from dawn to dark. Then he ate a meal in honor of his father's 85th birthday at Country Cottage in Locust Grove. It was Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Five days later, Birkes fell ill. The 61-year-old Grove man hasn't worked since.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Tulsa World
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  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:08pm

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    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    iPhone World
  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:07pm

    A 2-year-old girl became ill five minutes after drinking seawater at Narrow Neck Beach the same day a second dog died after eating toxins there. The Auckland Regional Council last night repeated its warnings to keep children and dogs away from Hauraki Gulf beaches after the death of five dogs and illness in at least a dozen others.

    Date Published: 
    24.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New Zealand Herald
  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:06pm

    As you pack for college, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told all its students in a recent e-mail message, don’t forget a thermometer, some over-the-counter cold remedies and a week’s worth of food.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:05pm

    YAMHILL, Ore. -- On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all. More fundamentally, it has no soul.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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  • Posted: August 23rd, 2009 - 7:04pm

    Earlier this year, Dr. Boni E. Elewski told me a story that has made it impossible for me to go barefoot.

    Date Published: 
    23.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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