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Going Barefoot Outdoors Carries Horrific Parasite Risk

The larva of this intestinal parasite can burrow through the skin of a person walking barefoot, entering the bloodstream, then the lungs, and ascend the windpipe, where they are coughed up and then swallowed. The worms can survive undetected in humans for decades, producing generation after generation.

Sugar, Salt Even More Deadly Than We Thought

A government consortium is calling for a 20-40% reduction in sugar consumption in order to save lives and reduce healthcare costs.

Guacamole Is No Longer Considered Politically Correct

Avocado farming is extremely water-intensive, with 60 gallons of water required to grow just one avocado, and the international trade of these fruits comes with a significant carbon footprint.

Shrimp From Bangladesh? Throw It Back

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Here are "highlights" of some of the imported foods, beverages, drugs, and medical devices subject to recent FDA actions and alerts: – "The article is subject to refusal of admission...

Hospital Food Is Literally Killing People

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Researchers have suggested opportunities are being missed to prevent listeriosis from pre-packed sandwiches. Eating pre-prepared sandwiches served in hospitals was the most common source of Listeria infections in England and Wales between 1981 and 2015. Scientists said repeated incidents, despite guidance on reducing the risk of listeriosis in healthcare settings being available, shows lessons are not being learned, with risk factors having similarities to those described previously. They made the comments as part...

Are You Ready For Gene-Edited Strawberries?

J.R. Simplot Company has announced a deal with California-based Plant Sciences Inc. to grow genetically modified strawberries that taste better, stay fresh longer and have a longer growing season.

“Are These Onions From Mexico?”

Federal officials say the outbreak has been traced to the fresh onions from Mexico.

Mexican Onions Source of Costly Salmonella Outbreak

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – It took only hours after the outbreak was linked to fresh onions from Mexico for the filing of the first consumer injury lawsuit to commence. And according to the complaint that one lawsuit is about serious money: “The amount in controversy far exceeds the minimal jurisdictional limits of this Court, and damages exceed $1,000,000.” The plaintiff is Ching-Yi Ortiz, a citizen, and resident of Bexar County, TX, and a citizen and...

Alcohol Drug Tests: How Long Is Alcohol Detectable In Your Body?

SOBA New Jersey – Consumption of alcohol is legal in all but about a dozen countries, but there may still be contexts in which you’ll be tested for alcohol in your system (such as a breathalyzer test or a test related to employment). Alcohol Test Detection Time by Type Alcohol does not remain detectable in the body for long, and its detectability varies depending on the type of test. Note: the following timelines are approximate and vary...

Frozen Shrimp From India? Throw It Back [Check Labels Now]

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Officials say a Salmonella Weltevreden outbreak linked to imported, cooked, frozen shrimp is over, but they are concerned some consumers may have the shrimp on hand. As of Sept. 21 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the outbreak over. At least nine people in four states were sickened. The last illness onset date was July 17, 2021. Based on the Food and Drug Administration’s completed traceback investigation and sample results,...

One Fast Food Craze Is Making People VERY Sick

Product: Chicken sandwich ... people want them so badly, they ignore decades of food poisoning reports and ultra low quality ingredients Updated: September 10, 2021 Burger King, West Wyatt Earp Boulevard, Dodge City, KS Ate the spicy Chicken sandwich and felt like throwing up an hour later. Can’t drink anything or eat. | Symptoms: Nausea, Diarrhea Burger King 725 W Illinois Ave, Dallas, TX 75224 I had ate a Chicken sandwich original . I went last night to eat...

5 Foods Never To Mix With Medications

WEBMD – You may know that some medicines don’t work well together. But what you eat and drink can have an effect on some drugs, too. Before you take a medication for the first time, talk with your doctor or pharmacist to see if there’s anything you should stay away from. Grapefruit This citrus fruit changes the way certain cells in your gut take in and move medication through your body -- it can affect more...

Seafood From Asia? Throw It Back

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The company has not issued an expanded recall even though there have been additional patients identified in a Salmonella Weltevreden outbreak linked to shrimp from Avanti Frozen Foods of India. As of this afternoon, new patients were identified after the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention declared the outbreak over on July 21, according to an alert from the Food and Drug Administration. The alert said: “The FDA, along with CDC...

Panera Bread Soup Recalled for “Extraneous Material”

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Blount Fine Foods of McKinney, TX, is recalling 6,384 pounds of Panera Bread at Home Chicken Tortilla Soup that may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically pieces of gray nitrile glove. The problem was discovered after the company notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that they received several consumer complaints reporting pieces of gray nitrile glove in the product. These items were shipped to retail locations...

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