Food and Product Safety Recalls, the ones you don't hear about.
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What the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't advertise.
One time I had a Professor from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz's College of Business tell me I should go into consumer protection. Then George Bush Senior told everyone they should do volunteer work.
Soooo, I chose clean water resource advocacy and working with local watershed associations. Then I started signing up for government food and product recalls.
I wondered why these food and product recalls were not in the news. I emailed Sue Shellenbarger at the Wall Street Journal and told her that I thought every newspaper in the country should have a small section everyday about the U.S Food And Drug Administration's almost daily email alerts about recalled food and products. I told her that it was as important as protecting citizens against terrorists. We were being invaded by unsafe food and consumer goods!
So I started posting the recalls on Tree Hugger hoping people would notice.
Then, the big story hit. The dog food in our country was killing pets and it had slipped through our country's safety net.
Todays news is that your pet toys are not tested for lead or other toxins whatsoever. And just for fun, Hartz Mountain's Vitamin Care for Cats was recalled in March.
I wonder if it's still on the shelves? Save This Page
Soooo, I chose clean water resource advocacy and working with local watershed associations. Then I started signing up for government food and product recalls.
I wondered why these food and product recalls were not in the news. I emailed Sue Shellenbarger at the Wall Street Journal and told her that I thought every newspaper in the country should have a small section everyday about the U.S Food And Drug Administration's almost daily email alerts about recalled food and products. I told her that it was as important as protecting citizens against terrorists. We were being invaded by unsafe food and consumer goods!
So I started posting the recalls on Tree Hugger hoping people would notice.
Then, the big story hit. The dog food in our country was killing pets and it had slipped through our country's safety net.
Todays news is that your pet toys are not tested for lead or other toxins whatsoever. And just for fun, Hartz Mountain's Vitamin Care for Cats was recalled in March.
I wonder if it's still on the shelves? Save This Page
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Alida Cornelius (that's me ) who calls her website Art By Alida never learned computer graphics. so her work is hand drawn pen and ink. Sometimes Old dogs just can't learn new tricks.
And anyway, I love the old style of Andy Warhol's screenprinting. So, even though my items are not silk screened, at least most of the process is still done by hand without any Photoshop or computers making it look any better than I can do.
And anyway, I love the old style of Andy Warhol's screenprinting. So, even though my items are not silk screened, at least most of the process is still done by hand without any Photoshop or computers making it look any better than I can do.
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Frankenfoods, Clean Water, Food and Consumer Goods Safety and All Those Recalls.
Protecting our country against frankenfoods, and unsafe foods and consumer goods.
I started posting the recalls on Tree Hugger forums hoping someone may take notice or I could perhaps get a job writing for them alerting people in the U.S. about the dangers in our daily lives, and many people read my posts.Then, the huge scandal of the tainted dog food came out with the toxic ingredients in them from China and I knew I was on to something,
I started researching these drug companies in China, only to find out that these unregulated suppliers were already responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children in India and the Philippines with over the counter cough medicine.
I also read that it almost happened in the U.S. but because of an alert person in the FDA, the cough medicine ingredient did not make it onto our store shelves.
So, in order to continue my concern of the safety of our people, and probably a great deal to do with my anxiety disorder ("Always Be Prepared"), I will continue to pass on the information I receive in government emails, alerting the public on recalled food and consumer goods, of which never makes the news.
These consumer products may be in flea markets, yard sales, second hand stores, and even in Goodwill and Salvation Army Stores, and they are still out there.
I say, lets send them back to the manufacturer C.O.D.!!!!
And together, let's get manufacturers to be more responsible, because unfortunately, our government is already overloaded and underfunded and we all must be made aware of the dangers we face in our simple daily lives for the sake of our children and their future. Save This Page
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Graceonline wrote...
I second that welcome to Squidoo. I clicked through to TreeHugger and hunted for your alerts, but didn't find them in the two minutes I spent there. May I suggest you start your own blog on food recalls and link from here? It could become THE place to check. I know I'd bookmark it.
Posted June 15, 2008
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Laurie wrote
I've been wearing Alida's T-shirts for over twenty years. They're "First Class" and fabulous!
Posted May 29, 2008
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Welcome to Squidoo! Very nice lens, I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Posted May 19, 2008
Netflix Movies are great if you like foreign films with subtitles. "Kandahar" is enlightening for our times.
MY favorite films are foreign films from far-off remote places. Can't rent those at Blockbuster.
If you want to see how other people live in far-off lands, I can recommend signing up for Netflix. The best films I have ever seen are independent films, the sort you would see at the Cannes film festival. And I love Hindi movies because they have lots of dancing and singing without the sex and violence.
You can travel the world watching foreign films from Netflix. However, no matter how I try to list great foreign sub-titled films here, I can't get them to show up...Just KNOW you can rent them. I love Netflix.
- 001- Juno
Facing an unplanned pregnancy while she's still in high school, quirky teen Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page...- 002- Garden State
Having just weaned himself off antidepressants, Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, who also directs) retur...- 003- Once
In this charming contemporary musical helmed by John Carney, a street musician (Glen Hansard) in Dub...- 004- Friends with Money
Writer-director Nicole Holofcener's bittersweet tale examines the evolving lives of four female frie...- 005- The Darjeeling Limited
In the wake of their father's death, three brothers (Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman...- 006- Secretary
Recently released from a mental hospital after treatment for self-mutilating tendencies, a young wom...- 007- The Station Agent
When his only friend dies, a young dwarf named Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) relocates to an aband...- 008- Junebug
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by AlidaCornelius
Artist, writer,blogger.
Bachelor of Science in General Management from Indiana University of PA.
My main interests are art, theater, clean water resou... (more)
Bachelor of Science in General Management from Indiana University of PA.
My main interests are art, theater, clean water resou... (more)
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