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...Less Healthy Nestlé USA voluntarily recalled all its premade refrigerated cookie-dough products on June 19, removing an estimated 300,000 cases of goods from stores after the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the products might be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. So far, 70 people--75% of them female--from 30 states have been stricken with a single E. coli strain since March. Nestlé's announcement, which comes on the heels of salmonella scares stemming from tainted peanut butter and alfalfa sprouts, does not affect cookie-dough ice cream, which...
...they need a government imprimatur to establish credibility with consumers. Peanut-butter manufacturers, after all, saw sales decline 13% in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The spinach industry lost more than $350 million after a wave of E. coli infections linked to California growers was implicated in five deaths. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...agency has wholly failed in its regulation task and American consumers have paid the price in sickness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that E. coli O157 infects 73,000 people each year, primarily through the consumption of animal-manure tainted meat. And the World Health Organization finds that Salmonella, whose spread is encouraged by close confinement animal operations, infects another 1.4 million Americans annually, killing approximately 580 of them, and costing the nation $3 billion in healthcare costs and lost earnings...
...Originally requested by Senators Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer after the great bagged-spinach E. coli fiasco of 2006, the report arrives on the heels of a salmonella outbreak earlier this year, linked to tomatoes and peppers, which sickened at least 1,440 people and was America's largest food-borne-illness outbreak in a decade. Meanwhile, toxic additives in milk products in China have killed four infants, sickened 54,000 and led to recalls of Chinese dairy products worldwide...
...farming is already big in Canada and Europe and is gaining ground in the U.S. amid escalating concerns about the environment, pesticides and food safety in general. "Knowing exactly where your food comes from is a concern for a lot of people in the face of salmonella and E. coli scares," says Johanna Rosen of West Philadelphia's Mill Creek Farm...