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Food Security
Feeding billions of people is destabilizing the environment and contributing to conflict around the globe.
Posted inFood Security
FDA warns caffeine powder sellers about product’s potential lethality
The Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to five distributors of pure powdered caffeine, saying their products are dangerous and potentially deadly for consumers.
Posted inFood Security, Health Care
FDA warns caffeine powder sellers about product’s potential lethality
The Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to five distributors of pure powdered caffeine, saying their products are dangerous and potentially d
Posted inFood Security, Health Care
The buzz(kill) about caffeine
Caffeine is arguably the most popular drug in America. But what do you really know about it? This short video explains how the beloved stimulant became the key ingredient in top-selling soft drinks and how those drinks came to be blended with foreign-made synthetic caffeine.
Posted inEnvironment, Food Security
Eating mechanically tenderized beef could make you sick
Mechanically tenderized beef has been put through a machine that breaks up the muscle fiber and tough connective tissue with blades or needles. But if there are human pathogens, such as E. coli, on the surface of the meat, the process can push them deep inside the cut, putting you at risk of foodborne illness.
Posted inEnvironment, Food Security
No way to tell if US inspectors of foreign food are doing their job
Though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has opened foreign offices to help inspect imported food, drugs and products, a new federal report found that these offices don’t have performance measures to track and evaluate specifically how what they do improves food safety.
Posted inEnvironment, Food for 9 Billion, Food Security
Toxic manure lagoons stir battle over Chinese-owned pigs in the US
More than 500 North Carolinians say that their health and property values are hurt by nearby pig farms’ toxic manure lagoons and that the Chinese owners are making the situation worse by expanding the farms to export more pork.
Posted inFood Security
Your milk’s not contaminated with drugs, FDA says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the results of a study completed over two years ago, which found that more than 99 percent of the milk samples it tested were not tainted with drug residues.
Posted inEnvironment, Food Security
There could be arsenic in your rice. Here’s how to avoid it
Despite pressure from consumer advocates, the federal government has failed to set a limit for arsenic in rice. Officials still are studying the difficult question of whether arsenic in rice has cumulative, long-term health effects.
Posted inFood Security
There might be something else in your milk besides milk
Dairy cows get treated with a variety of medications to help them fight illness, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to release the results of its inquiry – started more than four years ago – into whether these drug are showing up in their milk.