Food & Drink
FinanceUSDA tightens requirements for school lunch safety
Friday, February 5th, 2010The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced some new steps Thursday to “assure the safety and quality of food” purchased for the National School Lunch Program. The measures include such things as tightening requirements on companies that supply ground beef to schools, testing the beef more often and more thoroughly, and improving communications within the USDA [...]
9 Unexpected Things in Drinking Water
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009They say that our drinking water is safe, but we know that when their lips are moving they are usually lying. I mean look at our food supply. How many recalls do you need to make things safe? Anyway, there are many surprising things in our water supply. Some you might expect, some you might [...]
Nearly 546,000 Pounds of Beef Recalled
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, according to federal health officials on Monday. Twenty-eight people may have become ill after eating beef produced by Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y. All but three of the suspected infections are in the northeastern U.S. [...]
