Fri
Mar 5 2010
12:13 pm
Unintended consequences of industrialized food-like products
By: R. Neal

A couple of weeks ago I started noticing a bunch of Kroger recalls for soup and dip mixes because of possible salmonella contamination. Then Giant Foods and several other brands. I suspected there might be a common denominator

The FDA has traced the problem to a single manufacturer in Nevada that makes "Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein." (Not sure which is worse for you - "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" or salmonella.)

Anyway, here's the FDA database with all the food-like products known to be affected at this time. Fortunately there are no reported illnesses or outbreaks so it was apparently caught in time.

It's scary to think about how one contaminated product from one company can make its way into so many consumer food products.

As Metulj said in an earlier comment, "eat in season and as local as you can get!"

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EricLykins's picture

commodities rise with

Submitted by EricLykins on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 12:27pm.

commodities rise with inflation. Oppenheimer Commodity Strategy Total Return Fund, or plant a garden.

And stop eating pasteurized processed cheese food. That's for the cheese to eat.

Andy Axel's picture

I'd be interested to know how

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 2:32pm.

I'd be interested to know how you keep freebooting quadrupeds from stealing your bounty. I had six tomato plants last season and every fresh fruit (and some of the green ones) were hijacked by opossum, squirrel, and raccoon.

Hildegard's picture

We caged our vines last year

Submitted by Hildegard on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 2:56pm.

We caged our vines last year with chicken wire.

Andy Axel's picture

Metro Davidson would frown

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 8:07pm.

Metro Davidson would frown upon the .22 solution...

11.12.080 Discharging weapons.

A. It is unlawful for any person to discharge or fire any firearm within the urban services district of the metropolitan government at any time, and within the general services district of the metropolitan government during the nighttime.

For the purposes of this section, the word "nighttime" means that period of time beginning thirty minutes after dusk and ending thirty minutes prior to sunrise.

B. It shall further be unlawful for any person to fire or discharge any air gun or air pistol, spring gun or spring pistol, or other device or firearm which is calculated or intended to propel or project a bullet, pellet, air or similar projectile, whether propelled by spring, compressed air or gases, explosive or other force-producing means, within the urban services district of the metropolitan government.

Aside from that, I have live traps. No sooner do I trap one than another one happens by within a couple of days.

R. Neal's picture

For the record I was in

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 1:14pm.

For the record I was in Wendy's for a delicious "Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Nonfat Dry Milk, Cocoa (processed with alkali), Guar Gum, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Calcium Sulfate, Disodium Phosphate, Artificial and Natural Flavoring, Vitamin A Palmitate."

michael kaplan's picture

as i type, PBS' NOW is doing

Submitted by michael kaplan on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 9:45pm.

as i type, PBS' NOW is doing a program on this subject.

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