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May 16, 2012
Former Pink Slime Beef Processors are Dropping Ammonia and Picking Up Their Knives
When the pink slime fervor began, Beef Products Inc, the largest national producer of what it prefers to call Lean Finely Textured Beef, halted production at a few of its plants. They claimed that free-falling demand, caused by Kroger, McDonald's and other large scale retailers' rejection of the amm ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Pink Slime Economics: A Local Cattleman on How Beef Prices will Rise, and Why That's OK
Yesterday the farming trade publication Farm Futures carried a story on the potential rise in beef prices after the recent uproar over pink slime, or LFTB (lean finely textured beef). CattleFax, a beef industry research group, estimates the pink slime news cycle "is costing the U.S. beef industry $1 ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Beef Products Inc. Wants Us to Eat Pink Slime for the Jobs. Sorry, But We'll Pass.
Processed-meat fever came to a head over the weekend. It started with a full-page ad, which appeared on Friday in the Wall Street Journal (and is on display below), paid for by Beef Product Inc. The company branded itself a paragon of food safety and cited "pink slime" libel as a threat to 3000 jobs ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
How to Make Food Inspections More Useful? Make Restaurants Inspect Themselves.
Pete Snyder knows a little bit about food-borne illness. In addition to earning a doctorate in Food Science and Safety, he owns his own company that helps retail food operations improve their safety. NBC featured him in the report that uncovered Dallas' failed code compliance system. He's the one th ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Think Last Night's Burger Made You Feel Sick Today? Think Again.
When I interviewed James Childers and asked him how many people got sick eating at restaurants in Dallas, his answer begged the question. He said his department received 117 complaints, in the last year but noted they were only complaints, not confirmed food-borne illness outbreaks. So I asked him ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Tips for Having a Safe, Sterile July 4th Picnic...Even Though You Shouldn't
Salmonella hates America. Fight back! Eat indoors!About 48 million Americans get food-borne illness per year, and of that heaving-and-hurling 48 million, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means roughly one in six Americans w ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Salmonella No Match For Traditional Texas Foodways
A pair of college students has discovered traditional Texas cuisine can be used to fight foodborne illnesses. According to research presented at last week's Texas Academy of Science meeting, a common strain of salmonella can't stand up to chili powder or certain barbecue marinades -- at least wh ... More >>
News
February 17, 2011
Bake Sale Bandits
Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.
Blogs
July 15, 2010
Killer Salsa: Why is the CDC Picking on Our Favorite Dips?
Ohmigod, that salsa killed Kenny!The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week did its best to dampen summer fun by linking salsa to food poisoning. According to the much-quoted press release, one out of every 25 cases of foodborne illnesses picked up at restaurants originates ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2009
Food For Thought 4.7.09
"Consumers are more concerned about the safety of food served in restaurants than food available from supermarkets, about a 15 percentage point difference. However, feelings about food safety in restaurants have remained relatively unchanged whereas the number of consumers who feel confident in the ... More >>
Calendar
April 2, 2009
Farm to Market
North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you
Blogs
March 23, 2009
Food For Thought 3.23.09
"They gave PCA glowing reviews. The company was selected by PCA, paid by PCA and realized that if they didn't give PCA a glowing review, they were not going to get hired again." (Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat and chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2009
Food For Thought 3.09.09
"The contribution of third-party audits to food safety is the same as the contribution of mail-order diploma mills to education." (Mansour Samadpour, a Seattle-based food safety consultant, commenting on the fact that, with government inspectors under greater pressure due to cutbacks and other issue ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2009
Food For Thought 2.17.09
Bill Kennedy, Cleveland Plain Dealer"The burden is on the company to make sure they are complying with any local, state and federal regulations that apply to food manufacturing. Naturally, that's not reassuring to the public. But we don't have people driving up and down roads looking for places like ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Chewing The Fat: Never Too Old
With all the recent concern over food safety, reports and stories examining the chain of food distribution and consumption are piling up quickly. While the peanut fiasco has many concerned about processing procedures, many are more than willing to brave treacherous waters.As though British cuisine ... More >>
News
December 21, 2000
Slaughterhouse Jive
Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor
News
July 13, 1995
Snakes in the grass
We're about to get bit again by deregulation

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Former Pink Slime Beef Processors are Dropping Ammonia and Picking Up Their Knives

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Pink Slime Economics: A Local Cattleman on How Beef Prices will Rise, and Why That's OK

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Beef Products Inc. Wants Us to Eat Pink Slime for the Jobs. Sorry, But We'll Pass.

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How to Make Food Inspections More Useful? Make Restaurants Inspect Themselves.

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Think Last Night's Burger Made You Feel Sick Today? Think Again.

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Tips for Having a Safe, Sterile July 4th Picnic...Even Though You Shouldn't

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Salmonella No Match For Traditional Texas Foodways

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Bake Sale Bandits

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Killer Salsa: Why is the CDC Picking on Our Favorite Dips?

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