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Senators want to expel junk food from U.S. schools

Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Editors note: While this is not strictly a  food safety story, it addresses some real issues in combating childhood obesity. From Yahoo News.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. schools with vending machines that sell candy and soda to students could soon find the government requiring healthier options to combat childhood obesity under a bill introduced on Thursday [...]

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Possible Carcinogenic Protein Found in Chinese Dairy Products

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Our diligent reader Carol turned us on to this article that we condensed from Epoch Times.  See what’s happening in focd safety in China.
China’s dairy industry is hit by another scandal following the melamine-tainted milk incident. a possible carcinogen, hydrolyzed leather protein, was found in many batches of dairy products produced by the Morning Garden [...]

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Lunch and food safety

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here in MA we have two tv restaurant shows of note. TV Diner and the Phantom Gourmet. Both rate restaurants on various criteria . For example the silver plate award.
US Food Safety doesn’t rate restaurants, but when I see something, I’ll let the readers know and maybe you’ve seen something similar.
I took my mother out [...]

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US Food Safety & Hungry Girl

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I had a fun day. I journeyed to BJ’s Wholesale Club in Framingham, Massachusetts for a chance to meet with Lisa Lillien and have her new book, 200 under 200, signed. USFoodsafety.com has been mentioned on the Hungry Girl e-mails and according to Lisa “They love our site”!
 
A big thanks to Lisa and her [...]

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Bank of America and Staples

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In my hometown, there are lots of banks. We have a TD Bank, Citizens, Riverbank, Citibank, Sovereign, and Bank of America. I think we have as many banks in our downtown area as stores.
 
The other day I was in Bank of America doing some business and I had to see an account representative. On the [...]

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