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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I know I need to get more designs up, but give me some time, please? I am saving the world also.
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.
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
Have any horror food poisoning stories?
Do you report it to the FDA when you get food poisoning?
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Graceonline
Jun 15, 2008 @ 9:57 am | delete
- 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.
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Laurie
May 29, 2008 @ 4:19 pm | delete
- I've been wearing Alida's T-shirts for over twenty years. They're "First Class" and fabulous!
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enslavedbyfaeries
May 19, 2008 @ 7:48 pm | delete
- Welcome to Squidoo! Very nice lens, I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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