Avoid Products Made With Peanut Butter (Salmonella Outbreak)
On Saturday, January 16, the U.S. FDA advised consumers to avoid products made with peanut butter. At this time, the scope of the salmonella outbreak is unknown. However, it has sickened over 450 people in 43 states as of yesterday. Ninety people have been hospitalized and six people have died.
The peanut butter sold in jars [...]
New “Smart Choice” Label
By mid 2009 you may start seeing a new label, Smart Choice, showing up on some food packaging. The idea is to make it easier to quickly make a better choice without having to read all of the details on the nutrition label or ingredient listing. But what exactly makes a food a “smart choice”? [...]
What’s In Your Drinking Water?
Do you know what’s in your drinking water? We receive reports from our township periodically and everything is within normal range. What worries me now is what might be in water that we aren’t testing for? How much of these things are in the water? How much does it take to affect our health? While [...]