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grown from the page at earthside.org/Food & in support of the forth-coming cookbook of the same name by June Perg Floyd
Friday, January 30, 2009
Intersting Food-related Links
Ran across a couple interesting links over the last couple days:
- While looking for information about paraffin toxicity, I ran across this: Waxed Paper. It's a page published by Transport Information Service (TIS), according to the page: "Cargo loss prevention information from German marine insurers." The site has storage, shipping and handling information for many products. The focus is for land/sea cargo container shipping, but it's good information for anyone interested in the storage characteristics of products.
- Found this one in a old bookmarks file - it's built under some sort of MLM web-site hosting pyramid scheme, but it's an interesting site for the recipes and information about building and cooking in firepits, fireplaces, and so on. It's called "Firepit and Grilling Guru"
Labels: fire, food safety, food storage, grilling, shipping, transport
High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated with Mecury
The Democracy Now! newsletter for yesterday (2009-01-29) contains a bombshell piece of food-safety information buried in the update on the contaminated peanut butter story; from the newsletter:
* Food Safety: Georgia Plant Knowingly Shipped Contaminated Peanuts; Study Links Corn Syrup to Toxic Mercury *
We look at two stories on food safety. The FDA has issued one of the largest food recalls in history after eight people died of salmonella poisoning. A Georgia peanut plant knowingly shipped products contaminated with salmonella on a dozen occasions over the past two years. And a pair of new studies has revealed traces of toxic mercury can be found in many popular food items containing high-fructose corn syrup. The sweetener has become a widely used substitute for sugar in processed foods, including many items marketed toward children. [emphasis mine -ed]
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/29/food_safety_georgia_plant_knowingly_shipped
The implications of this are staggering. This needs to be in the news - in court - "Friends don't let friend's consume High Fructose Corn Syrup"
Labels: danger, food safety, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, mecury contamination, peanuts, recall
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