Tag Archive: food safety

Possible ‘Cure’ for Severe Peanut Allergies

Catherine Sherriffs

There’s a very strict “no-nut” rule at the preschool my daughter goes to. I get it and respect it because if she was allergic to a certain food, I wouldn’t want anyone around her to be eating it either. Food allergies are on the rise around the world, the most common of all, being to…

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E. coli, Romaine, Food Safety, and Hydroponic Produce

If it isn’t one contaminant causing food safety issues today, it’s another. In fact, if you check the right news feeds every week, you’ll see that food recalls are a regular thing. Sometimes for suspected contamination, other times for known contamination. Processed foods, frozen foods, and fresh produce can all be a source of allergens…
January 22, 2018
Agent Green

Listeria Recalls: Increasing Produce Safety

A few weeks ago we saw possibly the largest of all listeria recalls of fresh fruits and vegetables. It involved a mind-boggling list of brands and produce types. Normally, such contamination involves a single food or ingredient. Not anymore. But given some thought, this event isn’t surprising. The Big Food system is rife with issues.…
November 24, 2017
Callie

Produce Stickers and Tattoos

Produce stickers are edible? Not the plastic or paper types! That adhesive on either seems pretty questionable too. Especially when it becomes part of the fruit’s skin and both come off as a single layer. How any of this is acceptable for organic produce seems an oxymoron. However, a solution to those billions of little…
November 6, 2017
Tammy Clayton

US Taxpayers Fund FDA Pro-GMO Campaign

If it isn’t one industry group, it’s another who sneaks the approval or cost of promoting their interest onto a bill. Saving the US government from shutdown over the new budget is always last-minute, and this year’s unwanted surprise is providing $3 million dollars in funding to the FDA to stage a pro-GMO food campaign.…
July 3, 2017
Agent Green

Saltwater Aquaponics & Indoor Shrimp Farming

Is the next big thing in urban farming going to be shrimp farming indoors? Not crayfish. Gourmet Pacific White Shrimp is grown in a sustainable greenhouse and indoor aquaculture systems. Over the past few years indoor shrimp farms are popping up between the coasts and in some of the most unlikely places. Many of these farms are a…
April 1, 2017
Amber