Food safety

You Could Get Sick if You Follow Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbook Recipes

If your culinary philosophy includes the belief that no kitchen is complete without a bamboo matcha whisk or a box of gluten-free pancake mix, then Gwyneth Paltrow is probably the lifestyle guru for you. Along with promoting sex-dust smoothies and $66 jade vagina eggs, Gwyn is of course an avid home cook with a library…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

American Company Recalls a Million Pounds of Cafeteria Chicken

A company producing ready-to-eat chicken is recalling 933,272 pounds of its ostensibly schoolhouse cafeteria-bound product. That’s equal to 26.5 million McNuggets, based on prior Gizmodo calculations. That is so much chicken. Oklahoma City-based OK Foods, inc.* is recalling chicken produced from Dec 19, 2016 through Mar 7, 2017. This comes after five complaints brought a United…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Leaked Audio: Trump Cares About Food Safety But Only If the Food Is Foreign

President Donald Trump intends to intensify enforcement of food safety regulations as a cudgel in international trade negotiations, according to leaked recordings of a what appears to be a phone conversation between Trump and Wilbur Ross, his nominee for Commerce Secretary. During the conversation, which was recorded in December, the then-president-elect also advocated a 10…

Tech News Brendan O'Connor

Stop Saying That Nutella Causes Cancer

If you were on social media yesterday, you probably noticed that Nutella has joined the long list of good things that supposedly cause cancer, like alcohol, red meat and maybe coffee. Trouble is, scientists never said that Nutella causes cancer. There’s definitely a food safety problem afoot, and Nutella is a part of it. This…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Don’t Eat Food Prepared by a Celebrity Chef on TV

If you’ve ever watched my Guy, Guy Fieri on television, you’d know that the best part is watching him manhandle meat, greasing up his gloveless Guy-paws with the grubbiest gristle. Well, a team of scientists think maybe these celeb chefs need to be a better influence when it comes to food safety. In a recent…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Massive E. Coli Outbreak In Flour Is Over, So Why Are People Still Getting Sick?

An outbreak of E. coli that caused 10 million pounds of flour to be pulled from shelves is finally over. Yet, cases continue to pop up, and the CDC says it expects to see even more. Here’s why, even when the outbreak is over, the illness still isn’t. The flour from General Mills was originally…

Tech News Ria Misra

The Recent String of Listeria Contaminations Is Unnerving

If you have any Blue Bell cookie dough ice cream in your freezer, put down the spoon. The ice cream company just issued a recall for possible Listeria contamination—the ice cream company’s second Listeria scare in as many years. Last year, Blue Bell had a huge recall of its ice cream (across flavors) for a…

Tech News Ria Misra

This New Gadget Could Detect Food Contamination in Minutes

When an outbreak of food poisoning hits, we trace our culinary steps backwards in an attempt to untangle the cause, hopefully before it can hit again. But a new sensor could radically change all that. A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into…

Tech News Ria Misra

The Five-Second Rule Still Doesn’t Work

Actual lab tests have revealed that the commonly-cited five-second rule doesn’t hold up. And yet, they still can’t stop me from eating this piece of floor candy! Who’s in charge now, Science? The five-second rule—which says that you can still happily snack on fallen food as long as you scoop it back up within five…

Tech News Ria Misra

Stop Drinking Out of Starbucks’ Metal Straws

Starbucks has recalled 2.8 million of its stainless steel straws after reports of children cutting their mouths while drinking. Starbucks sold the straws bothon their own and as part of a reusable steel cup. They come in two sizes—Grande, a 9.5 inch straw, and Venti, 10.4 inches—both of which are being recalled as “an injury…

Tech News Ria Misra

FDA Slaps Whole Foods With a Warning Over Its Disgusting Kitchen

The results of a FDA inspection into a Whole Foods prep kitchen—which mixes up those ready-to-eat meals and snacks perfect for an impulse buy—have been revealed. Prepare to be nauseated. The agency released a copy of the warning letter it sent to Whole Foods about the sorry state of a prep kitchen that makes the…

Tech News Ria Misra

Audit Finds America’s Food Recall System Moves Way Too Slow

An ongoing audit of the FDA’s food recall system has come out with a preliminary report that throws some serious fire at the existing recall system, describing it as neither “efficient” nor “effective.” The auditors from the Office of the Inspector General reviewed 30 cases of food recalls by the FDA between 2012-2015 to back-check…

Tech News Ria Misra

We Finally Know the Source of That Massive E. Coli Outbreak

This week, General Mills announced a voluntary recall of 10 million pounds of its flour over possible E. coli contamination. Now, the FDA has traced the outbreak back to its source: a single factory in Kansas City. The CDC had been looking into the mysterious 38-case E. coli outbreak, which had spread across 20 states,…

Tech News Ria Misra

General Mills Just Recalled 10 Million Pounds of Flour for a Possible E. coli Outbreak

Check your cabinets, people. General Mills just issued a recall for 10 million pounds of its flour, in connection with a potential E. coli outbreak. There are as of yet no confirmed cases of E. coli connected to the flour at all. But, starting December of last year and continuing till this month, the CDC…

Tech News Ria Misra

The Real Reason People Are Still So Confused About Genetically Modified Crops

Amidst the clamor over genetically modified crops, there’s an underlying point that’s still being missed: Nobody really knows what constitutes a genetically modified crop. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences attempts to synthesize more than 900 existing research studies on GM crops into a single analysis. The salient finding of the report…

Tech News Ria Misra

A Common Artificial Sweetener Is Poisoning Dogs

Xylitol is an artificial sweetener found in everything from toothpaste to peanut butter to sugar-free gum. And, it turns out, it’s poison for dogs. The FDA just dropped a new warning that, while it’s just fine for people, the sweetener has proven fatal for dogs. Not giving your dog sugar-free gum may already seem like…

Tech News Ria Misra

Genetic Analysis of 250 Burgers Reveals Some Unsavory Surprises

Last year, a biotech startup called Clear Labs performed DNA testing on a bunch of hot dogs and discovered that they often contain more than the label advertises. The same company has now used its arsenal of molecular technologies to break down America’s other favorite meat-on-a-bun product: burgers. Once again, there are some unsavory surprises.…

Tech News Maddie Stone

No One Knows What’s Causing This Massive Listeria Outbreak

An ongoing listeria outbreak has put eight people in the hospital and forced a recall of 358 different frozen fruits and vegetables. But although we know all these listeria cases are linked to the same source, just what that source is remains a mystery. The FDA just released the results of its investigation into the…

Health Ria Misra

How the Most Common Cause of Food Poisoning Became the Most Ignored

E. coli, salmonella, and staph are the names Americans fear when it comes to nasty foodborne illnesses. Yet it’s norovirus that is, far and away, the most common cause of food poisoning in the US. So why aren’t Americans more afraid of it? Of the 48 million cases of food poisoning in the US a…

Health Ria Misra

Chernobyl’s Milk Is Still Radioactive, Thirty Years After the Meltdown

It’s been thirty years since the Chernobyl disaster and radiation levels in plants seemed to have died down. So why are levels of radiation in milk still peaking? A new AP investigation found that radiation levels in milk from dairies along the border of the 1986 Chernobyl exclusion zone were 10 times higher than accepted…

Tech News Ria Misra

You Could Get Sick if You Follow Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbook Recipes

American Company Recalls a Million Pounds of Cafeteria Chicken

Leaked Audio: Trump Cares About Food Safety But Only If the Food Is Foreign

Stop Saying That Nutella Causes Cancer

Don’t Eat Food Prepared by a Celebrity Chef on TV

The Massive E. Coli Outbreak In Flour Is Over, So Why Are People Still Getting Sick?

The Recent String of Listeria Contaminations Is Unnerving

This New Gadget Could Detect Food Contamination in Minutes

The Five-Second Rule Still Doesn’t Work

Stop Drinking Out of Starbucks’ Metal Straws

FDA Slaps Whole Foods With a Warning Over Its Disgusting Kitchen

Audit Finds America’s Food Recall System Moves Way Too Slow

We Finally Know the Source of That Massive E. Coli Outbreak

General Mills Just Recalled 10 Million Pounds of Flour for a Possible E. coli Outbreak

The Real Reason People Are Still So Confused About Genetically Modified Crops

A Common Artificial Sweetener Is Poisoning Dogs

Genetic Analysis of 250 Burgers Reveals Some Unsavory Surprises

No One Knows What’s Causing This Massive Listeria Outbreak

How the Most Common Cause of Food Poisoning Became the Most Ignored

Chernobyl’s Milk Is Still Radioactive, Thirty Years After the Meltdown

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