Category Archives: Food Safety

It's not like there's any hurry or anything

By katiebird | Published: June 11, 2008
Last year it was the bagged spinach. This year it’s tomatoes. Just when you think a nice cool salad would be perfect on a hot, muggy day — BAM! Salmonella strikes again. Here’s what’s going on this time: US Salmonella outbreak explained New Scientist This week, the world’s biggest restaurant chain, McDonalds, stopped topping their Big Macs, [...]
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What I learned this week . . .

By katiebird | Published: July 2, 2007
I learned this week that soda pop can cause Cirrhosis of the Liver and, it seems, Parkinson’s Disease and Cancer too.  Apparently, a preservative used,  sodium benzoate causes damage to the DNA. It seems that the news is too new for the online medical indexes (it came out in mid-May.)  But here’s a quote from [...]
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