RECALLS...food, etc...

[bunkie]

Another spinach recall, this time for samonella

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_6750815

A California produce company recalled bagged fresh spinach Wednesday after it tested positive for salmonella.
*** There were no immediate reports of illness linked to the tainted spinach, distributed by Metz Fresh LLC of King City, Calif. The recall comes nearly a year after an outbreak of another pathogen, E. coli, in fresh spinach killed three people and sickened another 200.
*** The recalled spinach was distributed throughout the 48 states and Canada and sold in both retail and food service packages. It covers 8,118 cases of spinach, although the company said more than 90 percent of that was on hold and would not be released.
*** While only a single sample from one of three packing lines tested positive for salmonella, the company said it moved to recall all the spinach packed that same day as a precaution.
*** The recall covers 10- and 16-ounce bags, as well as 4-pound cartons and cartons that contain four 2.5-pound bags, with the following tracking codes: 12208114, 12208214 and 12208314.
*** Consumers with questions can contact Metz Fresh at 831-386-1018.
*** Last year's E. coli outbreak prompted the Food and Drug Administration to warn Americans not to eat fresh bagged spinach. It later lifted that warning after tracing the contamination to spinach processed and packed by Natural Selection Foods LLC in San Juan Bautista, Calif.
*** The incident prompted stricter monitoring procedures by growers and processors and stepped-up inspections by California health officials.
*** Salmonella sickens about 40,000 people a year in the U.S. and kills about 600. It can cause diarrhea, fever, dehydration, abdominal pain and vomiting. Most cases of salmonella poisoning are caused by undercooked eggs and chicken.

[bunkie]

a few minutes ago...

Health alert issued for contaminated beef

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/inde...groundbeef.xml

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a health alert for approximately 41,305 pounds of possibly contaminated ground beef.



The FSIS said the ground beef, produced by Interstate Meat Distributors Inc. of Clackamas, Ore., might be contaminated with E.coli bacteria.



The U.S. Department of Agriculture service said there was a possible link between the ground beef and eight confirmed E. coli cases reported in Oregon and Washington. E.coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration.



The alert was issued for 16-ounce packages of "Northwest Finest" 7 percent and 10 percent fat content ground beef sold as "natural ground beef" and "organic ground beef" with a UPC code of 752907 600127.



Each package also bears the establishment number "Est. 965" inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as a sell-by date between "08/01/07" and "08/11/07."



The ground beef products were distributed to retail establishments in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Although the products are no longer being sold, officials said they might still be in home freezers.



Consumers with questions can contact the company at 360-910-2636.

[louanne]

good grief...this is reminding me of the bat man movie..where joker..using his brilliant scientific mind...dvelopes tainted product that when used in combination with other products...ends up killing ya.....man.... are we spinningoutta control or what.....
thanks for all our hard work folks...but gees is this hard to set and read....
I know I get to see all the toy recalls at work...and that is scary enough.....
just goes to show..for all we think w know....we dont know squat.....
once we allowed money to absolutely rule our lives...( and I still blame the sunday liquor laws way back when..evn if ya think its funny...its what opened the flood gates)
if you think of all the exchanges we have made as a nation.....meaning....allowing ourselves to be told what is safe an what is not....what we must have...how we must build.... how we must have what we want when we want...no matter what.....and business'and manufacturers..needing the unbelieveable profit...so a few can be rich...at all cost to the consumer....
the saddest thing is.....we as a nation of individules...realy do have the ability to shut it down.....but are so consumed by..having to have....that we allow it to continue.....
if the demand isnt there....the product ceases to be....its that simple.....hard to immagine ..but that simple......
I can think of a hundred things that according to advertisement's..I NEED to have.....but the truth is....I dont.....

[Locavore]

Originally Posted by louanne

good grief...this is reminding me of the bat man movie..where joker..using his brilliant scientific mind...dvelopes tainted product that when used in combination with other products...ends up killing ya.....man.... are we spinningoutta control or what.....

My God, Louanne, you've made the connection! It's been the Joker all along! Problem is, the "Joker" is the Globalization forces at work, and the joke's on all of us! If only we could, as you suggest, learn to live without the cheap **** from China (I say this knowing full well that I could go home, close my eyes, throw something and likely hit some cheap piece of **** from China).

Here's a question to the group: What is one thing you do (or could do) to eliminate at least one imported item from your life? I'm talking resources here, things we can all learn to do to re-train ourselves to feel less dependent on, for lack of a better term, cheap imported ****.

For my example, I reuse every paper and plastic bag I come into contact with, every glass jar, so that I haven't had to purchase any food storrage items for a long time--spagheti-sauce-jar-as-juice-pitcher, that sort of thing.

What about y'all?

[GreenZone]

Originally Posted by Locavore

(I say this knowing full well that I could go home, close my eyes, throw something and likely hit some cheap piece of **** from China).

Me, too...

[gulfcoastguy]

Well I reuse plastic grocery bags to pickup after my dog when walking her and to pick crops. Newspapers, cans, glass bottles, and plastic bottles go in the recycling bin. Unfortunately my Dell computer and my iPod are both made in china. It surprises the heck out of the people at the farmer's market when you pull out your own bag. My parents allways reused plastic bags, newpapers, and containers when I was growing up. They weren't "green" they were just raised on small rural Mississippi farms during the depression and WWII.

[Locavore]

Originally Posted by gulfcoastguy

It surprises the heck out of the people at the farmer's market when you pull out your own bag. My parents allways reused plastic bags, newpapers, and containers when I was growing up. They weren't "green" they were just raised on small rural Mississippi farms during the depression and WWII.

See, now that's the kind of "conservative" I can get with--conserving resources. I used to tease my mom for doing that; I felt the need to apologize to her recently when I found myself washing out used sandwich bags. Growing up can be so interesting...

[louanne]

LOL lav I was actually agreeing with ya all.... and reading al those recall posts reminded me of that particular movie bit....
NE way....
I take reusing to a whole new level...LOL....almost everything i own is second hand or third or fourth....car computer washer dryer..ect....I decided a few years back..that people throw much to much away...and that if a table or a desk from 19 50 has survived in good condition this long....well.... dont need to replace it for appearance sake.....

I think I am learning, now, or trying to.. what to grow in my own garden that works for me, to learn to use food items more seasonally.....not to expect to be eating fresh spinach in the middle of winter...unless I can find a way to grow it myself....

something I find really interesting right now...is how over the last few years...is the issue of feeding you animals people food is bad for them....but we are killing them with manufactured foods...
our water sources are so poluted but I see the lawn and garden poisions and fertilizers fly through the store lines....
I am suprised I havent been talked to at work....ha...I have been know to say...gee thats a lot of poision there.....yea ever read that lable....lol....
since moving here I have elimated everything going out of my house, that I can that is toxic...
I dont use aresols...
good lord even my house....as I collect fixtures and building materials...most are items, like my tub and windows and doors lighting fixtures and such that were salvaged from renovations.....

Its almost imposible tonot use anything..fromchina or whereever...but it is possible to limit..
you should follow me aroundwhen I go shopping.....LOl....I spend half my time saying.I dont need it I dont need it....Ihave coffee cups...I dont need new sheets.....those curtains are nice but mine are still good...
when I do dishes....after cooking...thinking WHY did I stop using paper plates....

but does anyone remember...like I do..when if ya ran outta sugar on the wekend....you borrowed somefromthe neighbor...cause the stores sure werent open....
and when spring came...ya washed and put away the winter stuff.and got out the spring stuff...not go out and buy all new stuff cause the old stuff was out of style.....
and when it cost less to fix something that was broken than to buy a new one?
I know I spent years...buying stuff cause I wanted it..not bcause I needed it.....
anyway....

again thank yo for all the info....it is great research...very saddening...and very hard to read..in the sense...that we are told how one thing or another is better safer for us...and in truth...we just dont really know that for sure....many things are happening for the sake of profit...

[HOD]

Originally Posted by Locavore

I could go home, close my eyes, throw something and likely hit some cheap piece of **** from China

Originally Posted by GreenZone

Me, too...

Huh.... I couldn't find anything I would be willing to THROW that was not made in China!


Hod.

[bunkie]

i'm very guilty of washing and reusing all our plastic bags and even tinfoil!:O)

Kroger Co. stores recall 2 types of potato salad

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll...EWS32/70901009

The Kroger Co. is recalling its store-brand mustard and Southern-style potato salads with a best-if-used-by date of Sept. 5 because the Ohio Department of Agriculture found E. coli in a routine food safety sampling of the salad, the store and the agriculture department said yesterday.

The store pulled the salads from its shelves on Thursday, but spokesman Meghan Glynn said she could not say when the salad in question first went on the shelves.

The grocery chain will provide a refund for salads returned to stores. Customers with questions should call 1-866-221-4141.

The recall was voluntary and done as a precaution, according to the store and the agriculture department, which said third parties analyzing additional samples of the potato salad did not find E. coli. No illnesses linked to the potato salad have been reported.

Ms. Glynn said she did not know how much of the potato salad was made, how many stores sold it, or how much has been returned.