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Kroger ground beef recalled after consumer found plastic in meat
A recall has been issued for about 35,464 pounds of raw ground beef, including some products sold at Kroger that may contain hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday. The ground beef, produced on March 22, is being recalled because they could contain “extraneous materials” such as plastic.
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Throw out all of your romaine lettuce, it could have E. coli, CDC says
Federal authorities investigating a nationwide E. coli outbreak say people who've bought chopped romaine lettuce should throw it out - and not eat it.
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Walk-In Freezer Organization Tips for Restaurants
Use the Proper Shelving NSF-approved shelving has been tested by the National Sanitation Foundation and was found to be safe to use for storing things such as food and medicine. Be sure to pick the proper epoxy coating that will withstand frequent cleaning and cold and damp environments. Lowest Shelves Should Be At Least 6 Read the full article...
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Cleaning products damage women's lungs as badly as a 20-a-day cigarette habit
"We feared that such chemicals, by steadily causing a little damage to the airways day after day, year after year, might accelerate the rate of lung function decline that occurs with age," said Professor Cecile Svanes.
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India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
Chickens raised in India for food have been dosed with some of the strongest antibiotics known to medicine, in practices that could have repercussions throughout the world. Hundreds of tonnes of an “antibiotic of last resort” – only used in the most extreme cases of sickness - are shipped to India each year to be used, without medical supervision, on animals that may not require the drugs but are being dosed with them nevertheless to promote the growth of healthy animals.
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Stay away from romaine lettuce, Consumer Reports advises
People should stay away from romaine lettuce until U.S. and Canadian health officials get to the bottom of an outbreak of E. coli infections, Consumer Reports says. The consumer advocacy group called on the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to do more to warn people about the outbreak, which at last count had made 58 people sick in the U.S. and Canada. One person has died.
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Farmers must stop antibiotics use in animals due to human health risk, warns WHO
Farmers must be prevented from using powerful antibiotics on animals reared for food, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, because of the serious risks to human health that result.
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About 200,000 contaminated eggs have been eaten, says French agriculture ministry
About 200,000 eggs contaminated with an insecticide have been eaten by French consumers, according to the French agriculture ministry on Friday.
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Just-Released Docs Show Monsanto ‘Executives Colluding With Corrupted EPA Officials to Manipulate Scientific Data’
The damning documents were released by plaintiffs suing Monsanto in a claim that Roundup caused them to become ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international controversy, a new trove of company records was released early Tuesday, providing fresh fuel for a heated global debate over whether or not the agricultural chemical giant suppressed information about the potential dangers of its Roundup herbicide and relied on U.S. regulators for help.
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WikiLeaks Releases Docs on 'Dumbo' CIA Tool Allowing Control of Webcams
WikiLeaks released new documents on Thursday within the Vault 7 documents, which contain information on CIA's hacking tools from the Dumbo project.
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EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study
The Environmental Protection Agency official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto Co.’s Roundup allegedly bragged to a company executive that he deserved a medal if he could kill another agency’s investigation into the herbicide’s key chemical.
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Germ in raw milk, poultry now tops food poisoning list
The U.S. government's latest report card on food poisoning suggests that a germ commonly linked to raw milk and poultry is surpassing salmonella at the top of the culprit list. The report counts cases in only 10 states for nine of the most common causes of foodborne illness, but is believed to be a good indicator of national food poisoning trends.
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Subway is advertising for ‘Apprentice Sandwich Artists’ to be paid just £3.50 per hour
Fast food chain Subway has come under fire for seeking to pay young “apprentices” just £3.50 per hour. An advert listed on a Government website, which has since been taken down, sought applicants to become “Apprentice Sandwich Artists” at the fast food chain’s Gateshead branch. Successful candidates were offered just £119 per week for five 8pm to 5pm days, including weekends, which it said amounted to 35 hours of work. The rate is the minimum that employers are required to pay apprentices by law.
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Pesticides Cause 200,000 Deaths a Year, UN Warns
Geneva, Mar 11 (Prensa Latina) Countries around the world must augment controls over the use of pesticides for they are causing 200,000 deaths a year due to poisoning, UN experts have warned. In a yearly report to the UN Council on Human Rights, the organization's Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Food, Hilal Elve, warned that if the problem is worse in poor and developing nations, no country is immune to these harmful substances.
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Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin’s Bank Accused of “Widespread Misconduct” in Leaked Memo
OneWest Bank repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws, according to a previously undisclosed 2013 memo from top state prosecutors. By David Dayen.
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Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease – report
Influential research that downplayed the role of sugar in heart disease in the 1960s was paid for by the sugar industry, according to a report released on Monday. With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Is Cadbury's move the end for Fairtrade? - BBC News
With Cadbury set to drop its Fairtrade certification, has the ethical-trade mark had its day?
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Kay Jewelers accused of swapping diamonds with fakes
From their relationship to his proposal to her wedding ring, everything was pretty picture perfect for Sophie and Aaron Long. But six weeks before the big day, doctors diagnosed Sophie with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For Sophie, it meant chemotherapy and weight loss. But after seven months, she beat the cancer. When she regained the weight she had lost from treatments, Sophie needed her wedding band and engagement ring resized. She said Kay Jewelers, where Aaron purchased the set, said the rings couldn't be altered as she needed, so the store would replace the rings with new ones two sizes bigger.
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WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents
The World Health Organization's cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws. In a letter and an email seen by Reuters, officials from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cautioned scientists who worked on a review in 2015 of the weedkiller glyphosate against releasing requested material.
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EU drops law to limit cancer-linked chemical in food after industry complaint
The European commission has dropped plans to legally limit a pervasive but naturally occurring chemical found in food, that is linked to cancer, just days after lobbying by industry, the Guardian has learned. Campaigners say that leaked documents revealing the legislative retreat show “undue influence” by the food industry over EU law-making and a “permanent scandal”, although the issue is complex.
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