The production company behind Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown series are releasing a web series called Food Crimes. Here’s their first episode.
Food Crimes – “The Hunt for Illegal Seafood”
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Jeni’s Ice Creams Shutters Shops Again Amid More Listeria Concerns – Eater
I guess the silver lining here is that it seems like this company is doing the right thing to prevent people from getting hurt.
CEO John Lowe broke the news today in a blog post to the Jeni’s website, which reads in part:
We have found Listeria in our production facility again. We discovered the Listeria through routine swabbing as part of our monitoring program. We stopped production earlier this week and have been investigating where and how it may have re-entered the facility. … Since resuming production in our kitchen on May 13, 2015, we have been testing every batch of ice cream we have made and holding it until we learned that the testing did not detect any Listeria. So it is with complete confidence that I can say all of the ice cream that has been served in our shops since reopening on May 22 has been safe and is 100% Listeria-free.
via Jeni’s Ice Creams Shutters Shops Again Amid More Listeria Concerns – Eater.
Here’s How Much Mouse Poop The FDA Allows In Your Food
You’ve probably eaten mouse poop — and the federal government is just fine with that. It’s also fine with mold, rat hairs and insect legs.
The Food and Drug Administration, you see, has detailed guidelines on how much filth can be found in many of the foods sold in America. The FDA enumerates these guidelines in a document known as the “Defect Levels Handbook.” The introduction to the handbook explains that “it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects” — and that these so-called “defects” present no real risk to human health.
The FDA also says that many food companies take measures to ensure that their food actually contains far lower levels of these defects than their regulations require. If a food exceeds these levels, the FDA can label it “adulterated” and ask that it be taken off store shelves.
via Here’s How Much Mouse Poop The FDA Allows In Your Food.
A Secretive Trade Group Is Regulating What’s In Your Food
Ingredients created by food companies flavor what Americans eat each day — everything from juice drinks and potato chips to ice cream and canned soups. They give Cheetos their addictive cheesy taste and help distinguish Jolly Ranchers from other fruit-flavored candies.
But the organization responsible for the safety of most “natural” and “artificial” flavors that end up in foods and beverages isn’t part of the U.S. government. Rather, the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association — a secretive food industry trade group that has no in-house employees, no office of its own and a minuscule budget — serves as the de-facto regulator of the nation’s flavor additives.
via A Secretive Trade Group Is Regulating What’s In Your Food.
