USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued advice for Iowa and Illinois residents hit by flooding: keep thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer, freeze water and gel packs before outages, group food together in the freezer, and store food above the reach of contaminated water.
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USDA Offers Summer Grilling Tips
Ahead of the Fourth of July, USDA urges cookout hosts to wash hands and surfaces, keep raw meat and poultry apart from produce and cooked food, and judge doneness with a thermometer rather than color: 145F for steaks, roasts, chops and fish, 160F for ground beef.
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Bottled Water Everywhere: Keeping it Safe
The FDA regulates bottled water under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, with standards of identity, limits on chemical, microbial and radiological contaminants, and manufacturing rules. The piece walks through classifications such as artesian well and mineral water.
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FDA Issues Warning Re Magic Power Coffee
The FDA warns that Magic Power Coffee, sold as an all-natural aphrodisiac supplement, contains hydroxythiohomosildenafil, a chemical similar to Viagra's active ingredient that can sharply lower blood pressure in men taking nitrate medications such as nitroglycerin.
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USDA Public Meetings to Gather Input on New Draft Validation Guidance
FSIS announced a series of public meetings on its draft HACCP validation guidance, opening June 14, 2010 in Washington. The agency says the guidance adds no new requirements but clarifies existing ones, especially for small processors, with a second comment round to follow.
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USDA Offers Food Safety Tips In Preparation for Tsunami Warnings
With tsunami warnings issued for American Samoa, Guam and Hawaii after Chile's earthquake, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service offered outage advice: keep appliance thermometers at 0F and 40F, freeze water and perishables in advance, and line up dry ice and coolers.
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Have a Safe and Healthy Super Bowl Celebration
A public-health checklist for Super Bowl parties: put out fruit and vegetables, watch the calories hidden in dips, check product recalls, follow the clean-separate-cook-chill rules, and line up a non-drinking driver before the party starts.
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USDA CONSUMER ALERT: Keeping Food Safe During An Emergency (Advisory)
USDA urges households facing winter storms to keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer, freeze containers of water and perishables ahead of outages, find out where dry ice and block ice are sold, and keep coolers ready for outages lasting more than four hours.
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FDA 101: Product Recalls (video)
A short note pointing to an FDA Consumer Update video in which Recall Operations Team Leader Armando Zamora explains how the agency manages recalls of defective or potentially harmful regulated products.
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FDA Warns Not to Consume Two Liquid “Energy” Products
The FDA told consumers to avoid New Whey and Hardcore Energize Bullet liquid vials after a utility knife blade turned up in one vial of each. Both products are being recalled, no one is known to have been hurt, and maker Protica is investigating.
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FDA: Nestle Toll House cookie dough linked to E. coli illness
The FDA warned consumers on June 19 not to eat Nestle Toll House prepackaged refrigerated cookie dough over possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination. Sixty-six illnesses had been reported in 28 states, 25 people were hospitalized, seven developed HUS, and Nestle recalled the raw dough nationwide.
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FDA alerts consumers to recall of certain pistachios (PR)
FDA and California inspectors found multiple Salmonella strains in pistachios from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, prompting a voluntary recall of roughly 1 million pounds. Consumers were told to avoid pistachio products they cannot trace to another supplier.
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FDA: Stop Using Hydroxycut Immediately
The FDA is warning consumers to stop using Hydroxycut weight loss supplements at once after 23 reports of serious problems, including liver injury and one death from liver failure. Maker Iovate says its own assessment of the risk differs from the agency's.
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005
Key recommendations from the 2005 guidelines: eat nutrient-dense foods while limiting saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars, salt and alcohol; balance calories against activity; and get at least 30 minutes of moderate activity most days, or 60 to 90 to sustain weight loss.
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Are You Storing Food Safely?
Refrigerate perishables within two hours, or one hour above 90 degrees; keep the refrigerator at or below 40 degrees and the freezer at 0; check with an appliance thermometer; leave room for air to circulate; and follow the storage directions on labels.
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USDA CONSUMER ALERT: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
The USDA offers food safety steps for those hit by Midwest flooding: keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer, hold them at 40 and 0 degrees F, freeze water and perishables ahead of an outage, move food above possible flood water, and have coolers ready.
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Beware of Online Cancer Fraud
FDA health fraud coordinator Gary Coody warns that bogus cancer cures sold as pills, tonics and creams, often labeled natural treatments or dietary supplements, prey on desperate patients. Even harmless-seeming products can do damage by delaying proven treatment.
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