Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Clearly, the goal of so-called "food safety" initiatives have nothing to do with actually protecting consumers, but a whole lot to do with meeting the interests of agricultural companies and junk food manufacturers. The primary concern of food safety officials appears to be extending shelf life, not protecting consumer health, which is why most of the food safety rules in effect today -- and even new ones like this almond pasteurization rule -- primarily have the effect of extending food shelf life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The House will vote March 2, 2006 on a bill that would gut state food safety and labeling laws. H.R. 4167, the "National Uniformity for Food Act," lowers the bar on food safety by overturning state food safety laws that are not "identical" to federal law. Hundreds of state laws and regulations are at risk, including those governing the safety of milk, fish, and shellfish. The bill is being pushed by large supermarket chains and food manufacturers, spearheaded by the powerful Grocery Manufacturers of America. |
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| Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director, Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Sprout Safety
Raw and undercooked sprouts can be as risky as undercooked beef and eggs. They may carry E. coli and salmonella, which can be especially dangerous for children, seniors and those who have weakened immune systems. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing stricter safety standards for sprouts.
Michael Doyle, PhD, professor of food microbiology, and director, Center for food safety, University of Georgia, Griffin.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 China and claiming China is the source of all our food safety problems.
Sleight of hand works for governments, too
Magicians use the same trick. Create a distraction, and while the audience is looking in that direction, you pull a fast one on the cards palmed in your other hand. Except in this case, U.S. food safety regulators aren't playing with cards; they're playing with the lives of the American people. And so far, they're losing big time: Americans are now the least healthy people in the world among industrialized nations. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I am opposed to the amendment being prepared by Durbin, as food safety is a completely different issue and must be kept out of drug safety legislation so that there can be no confusion between drug safety and food safety laws - which are quite different.
Sincerely,
About Byron Richards: Richards is the founder of Wellness Resource (www.WellnessResources.com) and author of Fight For Your Health! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's next: The future of processed meats
My research tells me that chemical additives in processed meats are emerging as the next big food safety issue to hit mainstream awareness. Just a few years ago, most consumers had never heard of trans fats or the dangers of hydrogenated oils, for example. But once that issue went mainstream, fast food restaurants all over the country announced changes to avoid hydrogenated oils.
I believe that sodium nitrite in processed meats is the next big food safety issue that's about to break into mainstream awareness. |
Michael Pollan
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 As soon as you do, accountability becomes once again a matter of relationships instead of regulation or labeling or legal liability. food safety didn't become a national or global problem until the industrialization of the food chain attenuated the relationships between food producers and eaters. That was the story Upton Sinclair told about the Beef Trust in 1906, and it's the story unfolding in China today, where the rapid industrialization of the food system is leading to alarming breakdowns in food safety and integrity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I am opposed to the amendment being prepared by Durbin, as food safety is a completely different issue and must be kept out of drug safety legislation so that there can be no confusion between drug safety and food safety laws - which are quite different.
Sincerely,
About Byron Richards: Richards is the founder of Wellness Resource (www.WellnessResources.com) and author of Fight For Your Health! |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Through this historic action, Congress presented the EPA with the immense challenge of implementing the most comprehensive overhaul in decades of the nations pesticide and food safety laws. The centerpiece of Congress's challenge was the requirement to review and reassess—within a decade—the tolerances (maximum permitted residues) for all food-use pesticides to ensure they met a new, strict safety standard.
Prior to the FQPA, the laws governing food safety were a bit fuzzy, or at least they allowed for a lot of leeway. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Read the Center for food safety report on pharmaceutical rice. Click here to download the report now (PDF). This is an important report to read if you want to understand how drug companies are now trying to turn nature's crops into pharmaceutical factories, placing the safety of the entire national food supply at great risk.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Given the atrocious track record of pet food safety in the United States, we felt an urgent need to publish a tell-all reference guide that had the courage to reveal the truth about commonly used pet food ingredients," said Mike Adams, the executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center. "Consumers desperately need to know what's really in their pet food, and there is an urgent need for the pet food industry to clean up its act and stop poisoning dogs, cats and other pets with toxic ingredients that cause cancer, diabetes and other diseases," Adams said.
Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D. |
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| And while you're at it, be sure to visit the Center for food safety (www.centerforfoodsafety.org), a non-profit organization that's been doing the oversight job our own government should have been doing. But since the people who run the USDA, EPA and FDA are the very same people who occupy top positions in the most powerful agricultural organizations in the world, the U.S. government has no intention whatsoever to protect the public from financial exploitation by influential corporations (regardless of the cost to the future of life on planet Earth). |
| The Future of Food is a great ally in this fight, and the Center for food safety deserves your goodwill and financial support. Please consider donating to this organization to help fund even more pro-consumer action that challenges the regulatory failures of the USDA, FDA and EPA.
Stay tuned to NewsTarget for more pro-consumer news. We're fighting to protect life on many fronts, including challenging Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Oil and Big Government. We believe in consumer rights, open-source intellectual property and the protection of nature. |
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| Von Eschenbach is on record as stating that the Critical Path Initiative is the FDA's top priority (not drug safety or food safety).
The Critical Path Initiative has been repeatedly attacked because it would expose patients to drugs with far less testing for safety and effectiveness compared to drugs already on the market. Furthermore, these biologic drugs will be far more powerful because they throw gene switches in cells -- meaning the risk for adverse events skyrockets. Initially, just patients with no other medical hope will be the guinea pigs. |
| Regarding foods, and dietary supplements are generally regulated as foods, the general directive of the Foundation is to identify holes in the evaluation of food safety and identify ways to address those deficiencies through collaborative research with industry.
SEN. HARKIN: So, to make this absolutely clear, what you are saying is that the bill we are debating would in no way interfere with consumers' access to dietary supplements?
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| Regarding foods, and dietary supplements are generally regulated as foods, the general directive of the Foundation is to identify holes in the evaluation of food safety and identify ways to address those deficiencies through collaborative research with industry.
Mr. HARKIN. So to make this absolutely clear, what you are saying is that the bill we are debating would in no way interfere with consumers' access to dietary supplements?
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| President, a number of questions have been raised about how the Durbin amendment on food safety, adopted yesterday by a unanimous vote, would affect regulation of dietary supplements….
For the edification of my colleagues, section 201ff of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, FFDCA, contains the definition of dietary supplements. That definition includes a proviso that supplements are to be considered foods, except in the instance when a product makes a drug claim. In other words, by Federal law, dietary supplements are generally considered to be foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because of this remarkable ability, aloe vera gel could revolutionize food safety around the world. Dipping fruits and vegetables in aloe vera gel would eliminate e.coli, preserve freshness, and greatly extend shelf life. So why isn't anybody doing this with aloe? Probably because, once again, aloe vera gel can't be patented. And it's easier and cheaper for food companies to simply add synthetic chemicals to foods than to switch to something safe and natural.
But that doesn't mean you can't do this yourself! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| ABC, which spends more than $2 million annually on nutrition and food safety research, is proactively addressing the issues and needs of the consumer. The industry participated in a public process while creating this plan, inviting input and addressing the concerns expressed by consumers, customers and industry members. The process included a public comment period, managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA considered all comments before making the pasteurization rule final. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If the world were really concerned about food safety, they would ban virtually all common food items made in the USA: Beef, hamburgers, processed meats, sugary sweets, diet sodas, frozen dinners and much more. The USA is the largest exporter of death and disease in the entire world. We sell more disease-promoting crap than anyone, and every country that adopts the U.S. diet sees an immediate and rapid decline in the health of its population.
You see, the "Blame China" campaign isn't really about protecting U.S. consumers from dangerous products. It's about shifting blame from the U.S. |
| Except in this case, U.S. food safety regulators aren't playing with cards; they're playing with the lives of the American people. And so far, they're losing big time: Americans are now the least healthy people in the world among industrialized nations. We suffer from more cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart disease, violent behavior and sheer madness than any population in the world, and you can't blame China for all that.
The real problem, it turns out, is found inside our own borders. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In this new WebSeed Citizen Journalism program, participants ("reporters", who may be located anywhere in the world) are given a topic ("beat") to cover, such as food safety, the FDA, prenatal nutrition, or other topics. Using a web interface, they submit stories to NewsTarget editors who review the stories for publication on NewsTarget.com and other sites.
These stories are published underneath a Google Adsense banner belonging to the reporter. (Each reporter must have a Google Adsense account to participate and earn revenue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's an insult to the consumer, too, but it's also par for the course when it comes to food safety: The FDA, after all, insists that both irradiated foods and GMO foods should not be labeled as such because the labels might "confuse consumers." That's right: Too much information is dangerous to consumers! Knowledge might cause them to make the wrong purchasing decision!
As a consumer, I've never felt so insulted in my entire life. Except, perhaps, for the one time a radio show host accidentally called me a doctor. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In any case, these photos do not show any evidence whatsoever that Jimmy Dean or Kraft Foods are violating food safety regulations. They merely show these foods at great magnification where visual details are much easier to study. The salami product, in particular, is made with beef hearts! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real question here is: What was the temperature of the juice when it was poured into the plastic bottle at the manufacturing facility? For food safety reasons, it would make operational sense to flash-pasteurize the pomegranate juice and pour it into the bottles as quickly as possible, sealing them from possible bacterial contamination. If this is true, it would mean that high-temperature juice comes into contact with the plastic container, and this could be an opportunity for the release of bisphenol-A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nutritional supplements, ingredients and product reviews
Foods, food ingredients, food marketing, food safety, etc.
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Writers who participate in the Citizen Journalism program are given access to a web interface where they can submit articles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I believe that sodium nitrite in processed meats is the next big food safety issue that's about to break into mainstream awareness. More and more consumers are suddenly aware that hot dogs promote cancer, or that bacon consumption is incredibly bad for your health. As awareness of this issue builds, there's going to be increasing political pressure to pass laws that protect the public by strictly limited or banning the use of sodium nitrite in processed meats. |
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