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Report: Unsafe food putting lives at risk

October 24, 2012 by foodsafeguru

By Todd Sperry, CNN Despite sweeping reform of food safety laws intended to make what we eat less dangerous, the number of Americans falling ill or dying from contaminated food has increased 44% in the past two years alone, according to a report released Wednesday.Tainted cantaloupe, unsafe mangoes, meat and the recent peanut butter recall […]

SimplyThick a risk to all infants, FDA cautions

September 18, 2012 by foodsafeguru

A product used to help infants with difficulty swallowing could increase their risk of developing a life-threatening illness, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday, according to an article on cnn.com. The agency says 22 infants developed necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) after being fed the thickening agent SimplyThick – reportedly as directed. Seven of them died. Necrotizing enterocolitis is a […]

Third-deadliest U.S. food outbreak was preventable, experts say

May 3, 2012 by foodsafeguru

Washington (CNN) – On a sunny morning early last September, Susanna Gaxiola fed her husband a healthy breakfast of fresh cantaloupe in their Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. Her husband, Rene, a Pentecostal pastor and minister, had been fighting a rare blood cancer and he was eating fresh cantaloupe and other fruit daily. Around the same time, […]

Nestle Cookie Dough Massive Food Recall

June 20, 2009 by foodsafeguru

Nestle Cookie Dough Recall By now, most of you have heard about the Nestle Dough recall and E.Coli. It is a sad state of affairs when these recalls takes precedence over nuclear weapons in North Korea and the war in Iraq not to mention the economy. I found that it was interesting while watching Lou […]