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Calling for change “Progress has plateaued” on the food safety front, according to Robert Taux of the CDC. Salmonella infections in particular are lacking in improvement, but the overall numbers are staggering: 76 million are sickened every year, with 300,000 hospitalized and 5,000 deaths from food poisoning yearly.
Springing leeks Chef Kurt Michael Kriese at [...]

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GOOD on your water foodprint GOOD magazine has put together a neat chart to visually represent your unseen water use, especially as it relates to food, which Kai from h2oconserve.org blogged about here back in February
More nutty salmonella Public health advocates say this latest outbreak is more evidence of a system in bad need of [...]

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Who knows where food comes from? According to this disturbing article from Wednesday’s New York Times, most of the folks who manufacture and distribute food products don’t know where their ingredients come from. (hat tip to Naomi Starkman)
Naked chef to cook for world leaders Sustainable food visionary Jamie Oliver and friends from his restaurant, [...]

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Along came a spider Last weekend, employees at a Tulsa Whole Foods found what was believed to be one of the world’s deadliest spiders in a shipment of bananas. Now, scientists are saying it may have been of a more common, harmless domestic variety.
Farmers’ markets boom good for farmers or markets? Local farmers markets [...]

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Less is more, if you’re talking fertilizer Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have just released the results of a ten-year study, the gist of which is that most crops absorb a small percentage of the nitrogen applied to soil, and the small increase in yield didn’t offset the considerable costs related to the [...]

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