Peanut butter snack recalls expand
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Food companies producing peanut snacks announced a series of voluntary recalls of their products over the weekend in the wake of a salmonella outbreak that has...
View ArticleHold that PB & J
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We’re now up to more than 55 products being recalled because of a salmonella outbreak in a peanut processing plant in Georgia. The recalled items all used peanut...
View ArticleA side of heavy metal with your sloppy joe?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Oh for the days when all we had to worry about was a little pesticide residue on our apples. This past week brought two reminders that what we don’t know is in our...
View ArticleCDC report: norovirus and salmonella leading causes of food borne disease
From Green Right Now Reports Norovirus and Salmonella were the leading causes of food borne disease outbreaks in 2006, according to a report released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleEgg recall is a warning about hyper-industrialized agriculture
(The following blog by Fedele Bauccio, CEO and co-founder of Bon Appétit Management Co., first appeared on Huffington Post and is reprinted with permission from Bon Appétit, a food service company that...
View ArticleHalf-billion eggs later, farm owners confronted
ABC News: The owners of two Iowa farms linked to the massive salmonella recall speak out:
View ArticleHalf-billion eggs later, farm owners confronted
ABC News: The owners of two Iowa farms linked to the massive salmonella recall speak out:
View ArticleCargill initiates ground turkey recall after positive test at Arkansas facility
From Green Right Now Reports Cargill Value Added Meats Retail, a business unit of Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, is recalling 185,000 pounds of 85-percent-lean fresh ground turkey products...
View ArticleGreen Valley Food Corp. has recalled alfalfa sprouts in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports After a random sample turned up salmonella contamination in a package of its alfalfa sprouts in mid-December, Green Valley Food Corp. of Dallas, recalled 650 cases of...
View ArticlePeanut butter recall expanded to include roasted and raw peanuts
From Green Right Now Reports A recall of Sunland Inc.’s peanut butter and other nut butters, which have been potentially contaminated with salmonella, has been expanded to include raw and roasted...
View ArticleHow ‘sequester’ budget cuts could make us green, but not in the way you think
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now No matter what your political leanings, you probably find it painful to watch Washington squirming under the budget ‘sequester,’ which will dramatically cut...
View ArticleThe pending health epidemic that Congress could address – post shutdown...
Green Right Now Reports As Congress has been gripped by the dramedy of the Ted Cruz and Koch Brothers-inspired government shutdown/debt ceiling frenzy, people in California and a few other states have...
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