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Date: June 19, 2014 at 7:11:00 AM EDT
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Subject: Food Safety News - June 19, 2014 Alaska Health Officials Warn Public After ‘Probable Case’ of Paralytic Shellfis...
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Study Looks at Connections Between Poverty and Foodborne Illness
Back to top^By Lydia Zuraw
A study from the Emerging Infections Program at Yale School of Public Health found that, in adults, campylobacteriosis is more common among those of higher socioeconomic status, but, for children younger than 10, more cases occurred among those of lower socioeconomic status. Researchers Kelley Bemis, Ruthanne Marcus and James Hadler grouped cases of campylobacteriosis reported... Continue ReadingFDA Commissioner Promises Guidance to Help Reduce Salt in the American Diet
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is promising in media interviews that new sodium guidance, probably dependent on voluntary compliance by the food industry, is coming soon. The American diet of processed and restaurant foods — not so much the salt shaker on the table — is responsible for our average per-person consumption... Continue ReadingSoda Warning Label Rejected by California Assembly Health Committee
Back to top^By Lydia Zuraw
California’s bill to add warning labels to sugar-sweetened beverages has stalled in the state’s Assembly Health Committee. The state Senate passed the bill last month but fell three votes short of the 10 needed to pass the committee on Tuesday. After hearing from the bill’s author, Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), co-sponsors and beverage industry opponents,... Continue ReadingMore Food Safety News
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