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8 stories tagged "food-safety"
The Government Is Keeping Almost All of Abbott's $385 Million Formula Settlement. The Families of the Dead Infants Get Nothing.
Abbott will pay $385 million over the plant tied to two infant deaths. Almost every dollar reimburses Washington's own nutrition programs, three whistleblowers split $69 million, and the families get nothing. The DOJ dropped the criminal case after Abbott gave $500,000 to the president's inaugural f
Nutrition & FoodThey Drew Blood From 719 Women and Children in Rural Bangladesh. Every Sample Had at Least Two Mold Toxins.
Every one of 712 whole-blood samples from a cohort of 719 rural Bangladeshi women and children carried at least two mold toxins, and 84 percent of participants carried three or more, including one the liver converts into a carcinogen.
Nutrition & FoodSprouts Have Poisoned Thousands for a Quarter Century. The Wellness World Still Eats Them Raw.
Salmonella from Idaho broccoli sprouts has sickened 22 across four states, one more entry in a tally that logged 53 sprout outbreaks in two decades. The raw-is-best dogma is what keeps them coming.
Nutrition & FoodAll 719 Blood Samples Carried Mold Toxins, and the Youngest Children Carried the Riskiest Kidney Dose
Researchers tested the blood of 719 women and young children in rural Bangladesh. Ochratoxin A turned up in every single one, and modeling put up to 99 percent of the children over the line toxicologists use to flag a cancer-risk exposure.
Infectious DiseaseMexican Jalapeños Sickened 1,400 Americans in 2008. Eighteen Years Later, a Different Farm and the Same Import Gap Did It Again.
Salmonella Javiana in jalapeños from Sinaloa has sickened 345 people across 27 states. It is the second time in eighteen years that imported Mexican peppers have done this, and the FDA still physically inspects only about 1 to 2 percent of the food crossing the border.
Nutrition & FoodThe FDA Revoked Two Petroleum Dyes That Industry Abandoned Before Most Americans Were Born
Orange B was last certified in 1978. Citrus Red No. 2 has painted Florida oranges since 1959. The six petroleum dyes actually in the food supply remain on a voluntary timeline no manufacturer has publicly signed.
Infectious DiseaseThe Gut Lining Starves Salmonella of Iron, a Trick We Thought Only Immune Cells Knew
Salmonella sickens more than a million Americans a year. University of Vermont researchers found the cells it invades fight back by withholding the iron and manganese the bacteria need, a defense the textbooks credited mainly to immune cells.
Nutrition & FoodWHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.
WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.