John Dingell came up six or seven votes short today, and failed to get food safety reform legislation passed through Congress.
Dingell, the once powerful Michigan Democrat who lost his chairmanship of the Energy & Commerce Committee before the start of the 111th Congress, fell just short of getting the necessary two-thirds majority vote to
The U.S. House of Representatives is now on the floor debating H.R. 2749 "to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes."
Forty minutes of debate will be followed by a vote to suspend the rules and allow voting on final
Today’s Boston Globe features a recipe for grilled chicken salad with pecans and cranberries. I make variations of this recipe frequently, and was excited to see whether the Boston Globe recipe included any new ingredients that I could add to my mix. I read through the ingredient list and didn’t find anything particularly inspiring
The FDA announced today that a Michigan company is recalling several flavors of tea due to possible contamination with Salmonella. The report states:
Fireside Coffee Co., which is based in Swartz Creek [Michigan], is recalling vanilla, decaf vanilla, chocolate and spiced chai, because their ingredients include dry milk produced by Plainview Milk Products after June
Last January 18th, a group from the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church of Itta Bena dined at Greenwood Pizza Hut in northern Mississippi.
Afterwards 19 people were taken to the hospital with symptoms of vomiting and nausea. The Mississippi Health Department investigated but could not find the source of the illnesses. An April report
The news media has been full of reports concerning the arrests of more than 40 people folllowing a corruption investigation in New Jersey. Among the more startling aspects of the story are the allegations that those arrested were involved in the trafficking of human kidneys. An op-ed by Sally Satel in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, provided an
In a July 23, 2009 editorial titled, “The potential end of Beervana as we know it,” The Oregonian’s editorial board discusses the Portland City Council’s impending decision on whether to approve a $385 million proposal to begin filtering water from the Bull Run watershed, the source of Portland’s municipal water. The proposed filtration system
Hepatitis A is a communicable (or contagious) disease. The virus is transmitted by the “fecal – oral route,” (human feces gets into your mouth) generally from person-to-person, or via contaminated food or water.
Outbreaks, like the one at the Milan, Illinois McDonalds, associated with food have been increasingly implicated as a significant source of Hepatitis
WQAD reported today on a Rock Island County Sheriffs Department investigation into the hepatitis A outbreak in the Quad-Cities area. The outbreak has thus far resulted in at least 25 confirmed hepatitis A cases since June, most allegedly linked to the consumption of food and beverages served at the Milan McDonald’s restaurant, where “patient zero” worked
Scott Dye, program director for The National Sierra Club Water Sentinels Program was spot on today when he said “DNR stands for Do Not Release.” The State of Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources decided not to release evidence of excessive E. coli levels in the Lake of the Ozarks in an ill-conceived and dangerous attempt