Archive for the 'FDA' Category

Your government protects you–the consumer!!

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Court: US can block mad cow testing
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 29, 1:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially […]

Everone inna agger bidness gonna comply!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

FDA Unveils Voluntary Food Safety Rules
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By LIBBY QUAID
The Associated Press
Monday, March 12, 2007; 3:47 PM
WASHINGTON — The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don’t have to follow them.
Fruit and vegetable-related outbreaks of food poisoning are on the rise and in recent months have struck in spinach, tomatoes, lettuce […]

Maybe next time he’ll ship Fed-Ax…

Monday, August 28th, 2006

The linked Associated Press story mentions leaking boxes of extremeties, embezzlement and worse. I suggest you blow up the photo you can reach by the link because it is scarier than my attempt to soften the aesthetic blow of this story which refuses to die.

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Please find the actual article here.
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