Largest School Districts Going With
Antibiotic-Free Chicken
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News Desk
 On Tuesday evening, the Urban School Food Alliance announced its new antibiotic-free standard for companies
to follow when supplying chicken products to its schools. The Alliance is a coalition of the largest school districts in the U.S., includes New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami-Dade, Dallas and Orlando, and serves nearly 2.9 million students every day.
Under...
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CSPI Wants FDA to Ban Sales of Bulk
Caffeine
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News Desk
 The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to ban the sale of pure, powdered or liquid caffeine as a dietary supplement. “CSPI believes that highly concentrated caffeine presents a unique, self-evident danger to consumers that justifies an immediate ban and corresponding adjustments to FDA’s
regulations,”...
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Online Food Safety Program Launched
for Industry Professionals
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News Desk
 On Monday, the University of Guelph’s Department of Food Science launched an online food safety training
program for food industry professionals. The university said the program is designed specifically for professionals and staff working in food safety, quality assurance, production and management. The first seven modules of the program will begin in February
2015 and...
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More Food Safety News
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The debate over how to store shell eggs has been going on ever since the chicken laid the first egg, if we assume the former came before the latter. Our ancestors looked at a range of techniques to preserve eggs, from burying them in lime to coating them with sodium silicate (water glass). The methods... Continue Reading
