Food Safety Act Passes in the Senate--Now, It Gets Passed Back to the House -
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Ethel Tiersky
The Food Safety Modernization Act outlines "the most sweeping change in food safety laws in over seven decades," according to Helena Bottemiller at Food Safety News. How has this important bill been progressing in its journey toward becoming law? Slowly. It passed the House in...
Certain Foods Making You Sick? You May Have Food Allergies! -
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Ethel Tiersky
Food allergies may be merely annoying, or they may be life-threatening. About 30,000 Americans rush to emergency rooms every year to receive treatment for serious allergic reactions to foods. For about 150-200 people, these reactions are fatal. People with food allergies must be careful about...
Everything You Need to Know about Cranberry Sauce -
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Ethel Tiersky
If there are no cranberries on the table, it can't be Thanksgiving, right? That's true now, but maybe not for the Plymouth colonists. They didn't have enough sugar to make the sweetened cranberry sauce that's on every holiday table today. If they had cranberries at...
