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Zombie Deer Disease? Is it Real? Is it Contagious to Humans?
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls | February 20, 2019
Zombie deer? Zombie Deer Disease? Is that really a thing? Sounds like something from the latest M. Night Shyamalan movie. Sadly, no. This is real problem for wild life. And it isn’t just limited to deer. Moose and elk can… read more
FDA Announces Tougher Regs on Dietary Supplements
Food Policy,Food Safety,Our Blog | February 16, 2019
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that it will begin procedures to enforce tougher regs on dietary supplements. The FDA does not regulate such supplements in the same manner that it does for medications. The FDA… read more
Food Safety,Our Blog,Science | February 15, 2019
Can you trust that your sushi is what it says it is? There’s quite a bit of fish out there posed as something else. A new article from a team of scientists at UCLA published on their seafood study in the… read more
The American Home and Food Waste
Food Insecurity,Food Policy,Food Safety | February 15, 2019
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Americans individually discard more than 400 pounds of food each and every year. In 2017, more than 78 million tons (yes, millions) of food was thrown away nationwide. No one truly likes… read more
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls | February 14, 2019
MakeFoodSafe.com would like to help you keep your family safe from unsafe foods. Each week we bring together a list of the current recalls. Putting recalled lots, UPC codes, and contact information for recalled products in one convenient place helps… read more
Fido Doesn’t Need Raw Milk – Pets and Raw Milk
Food Safety,Our Blog,Raw Milk | February 14, 2019
Raw milk– what is that exactly? Wikipedia explains it as the following: Raw milk or unpasteurized milk is milk that has not been pasteurized, a process of heating liquid foods to decontaminate them for safe drinking. Proponents of raw milk… read more
Food Safety | February 14, 2019
Love is in the air again ladies and gentlemen. It’s that time of year where we consider how much we love the ones in our lives and shower them with expensive gifts and candies. Wait a minute! Shouldn’t that be… read more
Increase in Food Recalls Not Your Imagination
Food Policy,Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls | February 12, 2019
It seems like there is a new food recall just about every week—will we ever be able to eat romaine lettuce again? Will the Caesar salad have to be redefined? Will anything be safe to eat ever again? What with… read more
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls | February 12, 2019
A company in Selma, Alabama, R. L. Zeigler Co. is recalling one of their sausage links items due to possible metal contamination. Approximately 12,000 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) poultry and meat sausage packages were found to have trace amounts of… read more
School Lunches and Food Safety
Food Policy,Food Safety,Listeria,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls | February 10, 2019
Researchers at Kansas State University have been looking into the safety of something that all of us have done: brown bagging it. And no, we’re not talking about discreet ways to enjoy an adult beverage in public. Sara Gragg and… read more