Food Safety

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Whole Foods Recalls Ground Beef; Leaves Fancy Rhetoric Intact

Whole Foods Recalls Ground Beef; Leaves Fancy Rhetoric Intact

KBR Sued Again, Featuring Dogs Running Around With Human Arms In Their Mouths

If it's not one thing (such as accusations of sexual harassment) with those crazy cats at Kellogg, Brown & Root, it's another.A lawsuit against the company recently filed in Houston federal court accuses its workers of exposing military and non-military personnel in Iraq to contaminated food, co ... More >>

“Animal Grossology”

Yucky science for kids

Keep On Shuckin'

Live dangerously with the Double Dumbass Combo at Gilhooley's Raw Bar

Houston, Is There Slime in YOUR Ice Machine?

www.cartoonstock.com​The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) published findings earlier this month from a two-year study that graded the residential kitchens of more than 13,000 participants using Health Department standards. The survey was conducted through their Home Kitc ... More >>

National Recall Includes Whole Foods-Brand Nutmeg

Ground nutmeg: KILL IT WITH FIRE​Just in time for the Christmas holidays, nutmeg has been recalled. Unlike the seasonally inopportune great canned pumpkin shortage of November 2009, nutmeg will be scarce for at least a little while thanks to a potential salmonella contamination. And trust me o ... More >>

What's So Damn Controversial About Cleaner, Safer Food?

​The plant was filthy and infested with vermin, with holes as large as 2 ½ feet in the ceilings leaking water and runoff from the air conditioner units onto the finished product stored below. Records posted on the web by attorney Bill Marler show that executives at Peanut Corporation of Ameri ... More >>

All I Want For Christmas Is Food Poisoning

​Christmas is over, but indulging in its confectionary delights might have left some with quite a foul aftertaste from an unwanted case of food poisoning. Whole Foods and the U.S. FDA have issued a recall for gingerbread houses produced by Rolf's Patisserie and sold at Whole Foods after Novemb ... More >>

Food Safety Modernization Act Passes, But at What Cost?

This...probably won't happen to your friendly local farm. Geez, Alex Jones...​Yesterday afternoon, President Obama signed what's being called "one of the most expansive food regulation bills in living memory," the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA), effectively creating a new arm of the Food ... More >>

Texas Lousy at Reporting Food Poisoning, Study Says

You'll never know what gets you in Texas​If you live in Texas and eat food, you will probably die, or at least become violently ill. That's what we're taking away from a study that gives the Lone Star state an "F" in reporting outbreaks of foodborne illness. The Center for Science in th ... More >>

Texas Lousy at Reporting Food Poisoning, Study Says

You'll never know what gets you in TexasBetween tainted peanuts and fatal spinach, we feel like there have been a lot of Texas food scares lately. But it's the stuff we don't hear about that gave Texas a failing grade in a new study of how states report icky food outbreaks. If you live in Texas an ... More >>

Come and Bake It

Local movement fights for cottage food bill.

A New Law to Fight the Cantaloupes of Death

That cantaloupe is POISON!​Sure, today may be World Rabies Day, but that's not the only deadly disease you need to worry about in this dangerous time of ours: In case you haven't heard, now even cantaloupe can kill you. A bacteria called listeria contaminated cantaloupes in Colorado (say that ... More >>

FDA Needs Money to Fight Cantaloupes of Death

That cantaloupe is POISON!​In case you haven't heard, now even cantaloupe can kill you. A bacteria called listeria contaminated cantaloupes in Colorado (say that three times fast), turning the delicious melons into orange orbs of death. The CDC says 13 people have died as a result of what is n ... More >>