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CFIA RECALL

Date: 2025-05-05T12:00:00

Product: Hong Kong brand Shredded Coconut recalled due to Salmonella

Details: The affected product is being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination.

More: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/hong-kong-brand-shredded-coconut-recalled-due-salmonella
#Canada #foodsafety #recall

Do not travel to the USA.

Reason number 23.
Why you should not travel to the USA.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/5/fear-and-intimidation-at-newark-airport

#usa #trump #fascism #donottravel #travel #cdnpol #eu #Europe #eupol #canada #dictator #surveillence #privacy #mexico #mex #southamerica #food #foodsafety #PopulationHealth #usda #vacination #measles #palestine

CFIA RECALL

Date: 2025-05-04T12:00:00

Product: Al Kanater brand Tahini recalled due to Salmonella

Details: The affected product is being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination.

More: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/al-kanater-brand-tahini-recalled-due-salmonella-0
#Canada #foodsafety #recall

"For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings for safety inspectors...Food scientists who test samples for bacteria and study potentially harmful chemicals also have been told they will get their jobs back, but have yet to receive any official confirmation."

https://apnews.com/article/fda-staff-cuts-inspections-safety-b2b9bcc71b647afe896fe331f89cfd6c

#PublicHealth #FDA #FoodSafety #inspections #HHS #DOGE #USpol

ICYMI: India Investigates Snake Contamination in School Lunch Sickening 100 Children https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/05/india-investigates-snake-contamination.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #India #SchoolSafety #FoodSafety #Maharashtra #HealthCrisis

If you're a regular shopper at Coles Rundle Place here in #Adelaide you might want to rethink that, my experience yesterday at the store involved seeing dozens of small birds flying around in store pooping on everything, and when I got my groceries home I found the packet of biscuits had a large rodent chew hole in one end of it, binned instantly.. Will not be shopping there again.

#Coles #Disgusting #Hygiene #FoodSafety #Shopping

India Investigates Snake Contamination in School Lunch Sickening 100 Children https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/05/india-investigates-snake-contamination.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #India #SchoolLunch #FoodSafety #Maharashtra #ChildHealth

Everything Bobby Brain Worm says is delusional crap.

Everything.

There is no need to parse every statement and explain every nuance. It is all unmitigated bullshit.

#BobbyBrainWorm #FascistEnablers #FoodSafety #Food #FoodQuality #Additives #Health #RFK_Jr #Poison #Healthcare #Voodoo #AntiVaxxer #AntiVaxx #TheCons #TheConsAreWeird #USpol #USpolitics #OrangeFreak #GOPfreaks #FascistTakeover #GOPweirdos #Weird #RFK #Trump #DonOld #Kennedy #BobKennedy #FDA #Regulations #BigGovt #BigGovernment

The Luxon Government is planning to INCREASE the amount of glyphosate residue that's allowed in some of our staple foods by up to 100 times!

You can make a submission here:
https://greenpeace.nz/i0al5j

#nz #nzpol #food #foodsafety #glyphosate

#FoodSafety

"Food safety lawyers represent people who have become ill due to foodborne illnesses, and they sometimes advise food businesses about regulatory compliance. Some of their largest cases have been the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak in 1993, in which undercooked hamburgers sickened more than 700 people and killed four children. A more recent example happened at several Chipotle locations between 2015 and 2018, when 1,100 people became sick from E. coli, salmonella and norovirus.

If your daily work is all about the harm that food has caused clients, it has to be a challenge to trust the food you eat. With a food safety system that seems increasingly under assault, we checked in with people who know how serious foodborne illnesses can be."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-food-safety-lawyers-wont-eat_l_6802655fe4b01dc12d4bba76

CFIA RECALL

Date: 2025-04-28T12:00:00

Product: Lil' Juan's brand and Lucia's brand Mexican Style Pork Carnitas recalled due to pieces of wood

Details: Lil' Juan's brand and Lucia's brand Mexican Style Pork Carnitas recalled due to pieces of wood.

More: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/lil-juan-s-brand-and-lucia-s-brand-mexican-style-pork-carnitas-recalled-due-pieces
#Canada #foodsafety #recall

Related: must find a used print copy of _The Poison Squad_, by Deborah Blum:

#USPolitics #FoodSafety

Back cover blurb for The Poison Squad (1 of 2, continued in the second image):
By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad."

Cover for _The Poison Squad), resembling a turn of the 20th Century advertisement, with black and white photographs of the men who formed Dr Wiley's "poison squad".

Continuation of the back cover blurb text, 2 of 2:
Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law."

Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.

The article hilariously suggests that the best way to avoid poisoning in America is to call in a historian 👵📚 instead of, you know, enforcing actual regulations or trusting science. Why trust experts when you can just summon the ghost of food safety past? 🤷‍♂️👻
https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/how-to-not-get-poisoned-in-america/ #foodpoisoning #humor #historians #foodsafety #satire #HackerNews #ngated

Push back against deregulation: regulations for food and water and medications and everything else, are what keeps us safe from unbridled greed.

"How to not get poisoned in America" (short version: PUSH BACK against deregulation; every safety rule is written in blood)

#USPolitics #FoodSafety

https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/how-to-not-get-poisoned-in-america/

From the interview linked in my post:

Are we looking at a future where brands are advertising being free of contaminants, and that's a luxury only affordable for the rich?

As a country, we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play. Most Americans don't really have a sense of what the environmental landscape of the United States looked like before the EPA, for instance. Instead, we demonize regulation, when often we're really talking about consumer protection. And when we're talking consumer protection, we're talking about protection for every American citizen. But until you have those kinds of universal standards in place, the people who suffer the most are going to be the people who can't afford the good stuff.

That was one of the things that I wrote about in The Poisoner’s Handbook: the disproportionate effect of Prohibition on people who had no money. They ended up with the really poisonous alcohol, whereas the F. Scott Fitzgeralds of the world always had the good stuff. They weren't being poisoned.

What does it feel like to be a science journalist — or any kind of journalist — in the USA right now? Talia Lavin talked to Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Center at MIT, a specialist in toxicology, and the woman who literally wrote the book on the history of U.S. food regulations. "As a country, we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play. Most Americans don't really have a sense of what the environmental landscape of the United States looked like before the EPA, for instance," says Blum. "Instead, we demonize regulation, when often we're really talking about consumer protection. And when we're talking consumer protection, we're talking about protection for every American citizen. But until you have those kinds of universal standards in place, the people who suffer the most are going to be the people who can't afford the good stuff."

https://flip.it/EEAN0S

#Journalism #ScienceJournalism #Media #FoodSafety #RFK #EPA #Regulation #USA #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Food

CFIA RECALL

Date: 2025-04-28T12:00:00

Product: Le Chef et Moi brand Chicken Meatballs in Marinara Sauce recalled due to undeclared milk

Details: Le Chef et Moi brand Chicken Meatballs in Marinara Sauce recalled due to undeclared milk.

More: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/chef-et-moi-brand-chicken-meatballs-marinara-sauce-recalled-due-undeclared-milk
#Canada #foodsafety #recall

CFIA RECALL

Date: 2025-04-24T12:00:00

Product: Marie Sharp's brand Original Garlic Habanero Pepper Sauce recalled due to spoilage

Details: Marie Sharp's brand Original Garlic Habanero Pepper Sauce recalled due to spoilage.

More: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/marie-sharp-s-brand-original-garlic-habanero-pepper-sauce-recalled-due-spoilage
#Canada #foodsafety #recall

"They found that when carbon dioxide levels rose independently, arsenic levels in the rice kernels barely increased. When measuring the arsenic concentrations with an increase in temperature, arsenic levels rose noticeably higher. However, when heat and extra carbon dioxide were combined, the arsenic levels surged far more than either factor alone, which the authors called a 'synergistic increase.'"

https://www.foodandwine.com/arsenic-in-rice-climate-change-11719548

#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #food #FoodSafety #rice #climate #arsenic