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March 29, 2012
The FDA Seems Pretty Meh on the Prospect of Actually Labeling Genetically Modified Food
As pink slime walks in shame to the doghouse this week, another important movement that transcends many aspects of the beef and processed-food industries met a milestone. Just Label It, a campaign initiated by Organic Voices, whose aim is to require labels on genetically modified foods, gathered one ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
So A Few Hundred Restaurants Could Have Some Rats Running Around. Is That a Big Deal?
Early this week, NBC 5 DFW reported that hundreds of Dallas restaurants have not been evaluated by city inspectors. The story cited an understaffed department, mismanagement and budget concerns for the failure. Specifically, 241 restaurants that fall in the inspection department's jurisdiction have ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Genetically Modified Salmon Coming to a Store Near You (Although You May Never Know It)
Short of earning a Ph.D in bio-tech science, making sense of genetically modified (GM) or engineered (GE) ingredients in America's food chain is almost impossible. Primarily because by law GM foods aren't required to be labeled as such. So you literally need that degree along with a boatload of data ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive
One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning after. He and his wife had their "accident" a few days before, and the 72-hour window in which EC is m ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Rick Perry, Stem Cell Therapy and the Battle Between Medical Freedom and Opportunism
The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one's own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated from human embryos. We don't blame 'em. This issue is thornier than a Texas mesquite thicket, ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
Do Melatonin Brownies Actually Do Anything? An Unfair Park Special Report.
No pot references here, no sir."You're going to eat that now?" the guy at the head shop asked. He looked worried. "That's not a good idea. I don't take 'em in the daytime. It renders me non-functional."Well, shit. It was Friday afternoon, and I was about to drug my co-workers.A little background, ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Of Gluttony, Hot Meat, Luscious Tomatoes and Dirty Chocolate: A Sinful Week in Food News
flickr user advencapGratuitous tomato porn. The FDA is under scrutiny in The New York Times this week. Looks like the serving sizes listed on nutrition labels may be getting a new look and Observer Editor Joe Tone will have a new and legitimate excuse to Hoover down ice cream by the pint. I ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
Unnatural Umami: How Soy Sauce Took a Shortcut Past Organic
Several years ago, the discovery of the carcinogenic compound 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol in soy sauce was generating concern throughout parts of Europe and Asia. A United Kingdom study directed attention to the matter in 2001.It turned out that low levels of 3-MCPD had been present in processe ... More >>
News
February 17, 2011
Bake Sale Bandits
Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.
Blogs
January 17, 2011
So You Want to Participate in UT-Dallas's Tinnitus Trials? The Good News and Bad News.
Almost as soon as we published that very popular post about University of Texas at Dallas researchers' efforts to silence that high-pitched problem known as tinnitus, readers began leaving comments and sending e-mails in which they all asked the same question: How can I participate in the f ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Girl Scout Cookies: Leave It to Us to Dig Up
A Murder Angle
The Girl Scouts' cookie sales season starts this week. And while there aren't any new cookies on the roster this year, the scouts are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Samoas -- a caramel-coconut concoction that debuted in a year the organization might otherwise wish to forget. Girl Scouts ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2010
Beers Of The Year
Don't criticize it.Overall, it's been another great year for beer, at least from my perspective here in North Texas. If I didn't suspect reader list burnout, I could probably do another top 10 piece on the best developments of the past year, and even another on things I'm most looking forward to ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Turnips, Happy Meals and Tainted Eggs: The Year's 10 Biggest National Food Stories
Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left for dead when the ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Trendsetters: Five Foods and Drinks That Had (Mostly) a Good Year
Man, we are so sick of eating all that kamut.2010 was supposed to be kamut's year. Industry watchers in 2009 predicted the wheat-like grain associated with King Tut would ride a celiac wave to greatness this year, sharing American pantries with papadum and coconut-milk pancake mix. The big n ... More >>
News
November 18, 2010
A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Man, we are so sick of eating all that kamut.2010 was supposed to be kamut's year. Industry watchers in 2009 predicted the wheat-like grain associated with King Tut would ride a celiac wave to greatness this year, sharing American pantries with papadum and coconut-milk pancake mix. The big n ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Four Rare, Retro Culinary Price is Right Clips
Now in its seventh season, Top Chef is still breaking enough ground to have scored an Emmy this weekend in the "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program" category. (Then again, the award may not be a fair gauge of innovation: The Amazing Race has won it seven years in a row.) But a few elements o ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2010
Foods the FDA Should Recall
Andrea GrimesVegan Activists Protested Factory Farms In Egg-streme HeatThe recent food recalls of eggs and beef (and their subsequent protests) got us thinking about food recalls that would better serve humanity. Herein, we provide a list of foods that should be taken off the market. One is worse ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Apple Juice Not Just for Kids Anymore, Though It Should Be
Far be it from me to meddle in other people's hydration techniques, but I was surprised this weekend to come across an overheated valet chugging a gallon of frozen apple juice. I like apples, but I always figured there was an age limit on enjoying apple juice. I'd no sooner drink apple juice ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2010
Goya Foods Recalls Frozen Mamey Packages Linked to Salmonella Typhi
Secaucus, New Jersey-based Goya Foods Inc., the dominant Latin American foods company, has recalled all its 14-ounce packages of frozen mamey pulp. The product is used to make milkshakes and smoothies. The packages were distributed in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2010
FDA Warning: Tons of Contaminated Cheese Sold in Florida, Texas, California, New York
Picture from Truesake.comYesterday Chuck Strouse over at our sister paper, Miami New Times reported on what may be one of the largest cheese busts in history: 85 tons of staph infected cheese were found festering in Miami's Lacteos Factory. The feds ordered the return of the cheese, and the U.S. ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Carter Albrecht's Dad Explains Why, Two Years Later, He and His Wife are Suing Pfizer
Carter AlbrechtYesterday in Dallas federal court, Carter Albrecht's parents, Ken and Judy, finally sued Pfizer, claiming that its smoking-cessation drug Chantix played a "direct and proximate" role in Carter's shooting death almost two years ago to the day. The Albrechts have long considered suin ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2009
Two Years After Albrecht's Death, FDA Forces "Mental Health Events" Chantix Warning
To this day, people still post comments to the September 4, 2007, Unfair Park item concerning the smoking-cessation drug Chantix and its troubling effect on users. Andrea Grimes wrote the piece because Sorta's Carter Albrecht and his girlfriend had begun using the Pfizer-made medicine shortly before ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2009
Fear The Cookie Dough
Delfi's World [In Focus], via FlickrA couple of notable news items came across the desk this weekend while you were out grillin' with Dad. Time to play catch up:Last Friday, June 19th, Nestle USA announced a voluntary recall of nearly four dozen Toll House refrigerated dough products. The action ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
Food For Thought 4.14.09
"Stevia is supposed to offer a non-dangerous natural alternative to sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners, and that's why it's supposed to do well. It doesn't have the calorie punch of sugar; it doesn't have the bad image of HFCS." (Marcia Mogelonsky, senior research analyst with ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Food For Thought 3.25.09
"Because it sells, food companies are slapping it on anything. And consumers believe natural equals nutritious. Actually, it's a bit like Alice in Wonderland. It means what I want it to mean." (Julie Miller Jones, professor of food safety and nutrition at College of St. Catherine in Minnesota on th ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Chewing the Fat: Plastic People
The state of some food these days is enough to make a man go hungry rather than risk consuming the contents of many processed and pre-packaged items. If it's not salmonella-tainted peanuts, it's energy drinks that turn your blood into syrup. Health Canada recently found that 96 percent of sodas o ... More >>
Dining
February 19, 2009
Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet
An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Food For Thought...
"We don't have a good idea right now in terms of how much of that product is still out there; it may have largely been consumed." (Stephen Sundlof of the FDA after the government extended a recall of peanut products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely, GA, plant to include the pa ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
Haggis: Did It Gag Us?
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2008
Is Fort Worth-Based BNSF Trying to "Intimidate Its Critics"?
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2008
Suicidal Tendencies: Or, a New York Writer Takes Chantix
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Chantix "Increasing Likely" to Cause "Agitation" and "Suicidal Behavior"
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2008
Pfizer No Longer Ruling Out Chantix Side Effects: "Depression and Suicidal Behavior"
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2008
The Clone Wars
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2007
FDA Makes It Official: It's Investigating Chantix and Its Side Effects
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2007
FDA Looking Into Carter Albrecht's "Case"
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
News
June 7, 2007
Ringing Up Baby
Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...
Blogs
February 21, 2007
How Brad Pitt Gets His Ideas
Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...
News
October 17, 2002
Race With a Killer
A Dallas doctor believes he holds a miracle treatment for a disease that maims and kills children. Proving it will take another miracle.
News
February 14, 2002
The Next Breast Thing
Build a better fake boob, and women will beat a path to your door, along with the occasional lawsuit
News
March 15, 2001
A Jolt to the System
This small electrical device may be the last hope for the chronically depressed
News
December 14, 2000
Letters
Killer Raisin Stem, Church and State Pen, Still No. 3
Dining
October 19, 2000
Seeds of Discontent
Can growing protests stem the tide of genetically engineered crops?
Dining
May 11, 2000
Ten-gallon beret
Charolais is a steak house with a French kiss
News
June 3, 1999
Unacceptable Risk
Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?
Dining
November 5, 1998
Rice brewhaha
The Blue Fish menusinks in a river of sake
News
June 25, 1998
Getting fat off non-fat
A fat substitute with some unpleasant potential side effects pits junk food against junk science
News
February 8, 1996
At a Snail's Place
Richard Fullington is trying to make a fortune in a slimy business
News
December 7, 1995
True crime story
Forget the usual tales of rape and pillage--consider the sins of corporate America
News
July 13, 1995
Snakes in the grass
We're about to get bit again by deregulation
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