Even as W.A. Bean & Sons tweaks its recipe to comply with a federal ban on artificial dyes, fans love the bright red dogs just the same.
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McDonald’s and Boar’s Head outbreaks may have you worried. Experts say the food supply is safe
Federal data shows the U.S. has made little progress toward reducing rates of foodborne illness as called for in Healthy People 2030, an effort to boost population-level health and well-being.
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Do your groceries need to be tossed out? What we know about the listeria recalls in Maine
A recent spate of listeria recalls is causing alarm.
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Don’t eat the romaine lettuce
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination. The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. […]
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Entitled to safe food supply
What branch of state government is charged with “protecting the food we eat”? According to the Maine.gov website, it’s the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Recently the Humane Society issued a video showing distressing, unsanitary conditions at the DeCoster egg farm in Turner, with hens laying eggs next to carcasses of hens that […]
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J. Grohman: Don’t let meat scare you
In his letter to the Sun Journal (Jan. 25), Sanders VanZandt equated meat eating with smoking. VanZandt needs to look past the scare headlines. Decades of epidemiological studies on meat eating habits have made no effort to distinguish between fresh meat and processed meat products. In the few studies addressing fresh meat alone, no link […]
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Food safety topic for Brown Bag discussion
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce will host “Food Safety in the Modern World,” a chamber Brown Bag Discussion, from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at its offices at 415 Lisbon St. The seminar is free and will be presented by Michele Pfannenstiel DMV of Dirigo Quality Meats, a food safety […]
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Pingree stands up for farmers while blasting proposed food safety regulations
AUGUSTA — Proposed regulations for fruit and vegetable producers would cripple Maine’s small farms and cause many to close, according to farmers speaking Monday to federal officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Farmers called the rules, proposed as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, a “game-changing piece of legislation,” compliance with which […]