Tag: contamination
Alert: Don’t Share The Salsa Bowl
Gathered around the refreshment table at a party or barbeque, happily munching away on chips and salsa and catching up with old friends, it's...
Check Your Steak Label For Mechanical Tenderizing
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of the outdoor grilling season. If you’re firing up your grill and just waiting to throw steaks...
EPA Warns Pregnant Women In Alabama To Not Drink Water
Attention residents of northern Alabama, and especially mothers-to-be and parents of young children: you may not want to drink your tap water for a...
Smucker’s Voluntarily Labels GMO Traces In Peanut Butter
At The Alternative Daily, we’ve reported on the growing demand for GMO transparency and labeling — polls say that about 90 percent of Americans...
Kellogg Under Investigation For Employee Urinating In Rice Krispies
A criminal investigation has recently begun involving the Kellogg Company, after a video was released on the Internet of a man deliberately urinating in...
More Bad News for Starbucks: Two Items Recalled
It seems that Starbucks has been under quite a bit of fire lately. We recently reported on the overwhelmingly high sugar content of the...
Almost 7 Million People are Drinking Teflon Contaminated Water
As it stands today, millions of people in the United States are drinking contaminated tap water. In one of the most sophisticated, developed countries...
Beware These Bacteria Hot Spots!
Summer is the time for more fun in the sun. Unfortunately, it is also the time for more warm and wet weather, which ultimately...
This Dangerous Bacteria Could be Lurking in Your Cheese
In 2009 and 2010, two strains of the potentially fatal pathogen Listeria monocytogenes infected 34 people in Austria, resulting in eight deaths.
The source...
The Dangers of Eating Silver
A study performed at the University of Missouri has found that silver nanoparticles, commonly used in pesticides, packaging, water treatment, cosmetics and preserving foods,...
