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Wed, 2011-10-26 00:45 — mdmcdonald
Food supply, food politics, and food safety in the US, inclusive of global concerns and needs

Group focusing upon the food security needs of the US, and world.

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Allen Clark Bob Ross Carl Taylor Christine Springer Corey Watts david hastings
drvroeg Gavin Macgregor... John Hoffman Kathy Gilbeaux LintonWells LuisKun
Maeryn Obley mdmcdonald Michael Gresalfi Rahul Gupta Ray Shirkhodai Samuel Bendett
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U.S. E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots leaves 1 dead and dozens ill--CDC

Mon, 2024-11-18 10:30 — mike kraft
E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots leaves 1 dead and dozens sickened across the US | CNN An E. coli outbreak linked to recalled carrots has led to dozens of illnesses in 18 states and one death, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Lauren Mascarenhas CNN

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Multiple sizes and brands of bagged organic baby and whole carrots were recalled Saturday by Bakersfield, California-based Grimmway Farms, which describes itself as one of the world’s largest carrot producers. The carrots were sold under the store brands for Kroger, Publix, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Wegmans and Whole Foods, among others.

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United States
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Contagion
Disease
Government
Health
Public Health
Food
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Food and safe water security for minority children in U.S. is decreasing -study

Mon, 2024-06-10 10:46 — mike kraft

Secure access to food and water is decreasing for US children, research finds (medicalxpress.com)

Between 2005 and 2020, the number of children facing simultaneous water and food insecurity in the United States more than doubled. Additionally, Black and Hispanic children were several times more likely than white children to experience food and water insecurity at the same time....

In a study published in Nature Water, the researchers examined water insecurity, food insecurity and their simultaneous occurrence among children in the United States.

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United States
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Children
Demographics
Public Health
Research
Economics
Food
Water
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis
Problem
Situation Report

U.S. dairy products, ground beef tested negative for bird flu--US Agriculture Department

Thu, 2024-05-02 10:29 — mike kraft
Pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu in milk, new FDA and academic studies confirm Extensive testing of pasteurized commercially purchased milk and other dairy products from 38 states found no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus. Megan Molteni STAT

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United States
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Bird Flu
Contagion
Disease Prevention
Government
Public Attitudes
Research
Agriculture
Animals
Food
Livestock
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis

Food insecurity in US dropped during pandemic--study

Wed, 2024-01-03 11:20 — mike kraft
Study: Food insecurity in US dropped during pandemic Food insecurity among low-income US adults dropped by nearly 5% during the pandemic. CIDRAP

Through government programs that included the expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food insecurity among low-income US adults dropped by nearly 5% during the pandemic but rose by 2022, according to a study today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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United States
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Government
Health
Policy
Public Health
Food
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis
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Situation Report

COVID virus can survive on some groceries for days -- new study

Fri, 2022-12-02 18:07 — mike kraft
COVID can live on groceries for days, scientists find in new study The virus is more likely to survive on certain foods, depending on the conditions in which they’re stored. YahooFinance

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Europe
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UK - London
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COVID-19
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Disease
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Public Health
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Science
Food
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Study shows safety net helped prevent widespread hunger during the pandemic

Thu, 2021-09-09 09:24 — mike kraft
New federal study shows safety net helped prevent widespread hunger during the pandemic U.S. Agriculture Department releases first complete government calculation of 2020 hunger surge, revealing the success of pandemic safety net programs. Laura Reiley Washington Post
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United States
General Topic Tags: 
COVID-19
Public Health
Economics
Food
Government
Health
Pandemics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis

Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says

Sat, 2020-10-17 19:19 — mike kraft
Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says China's disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. Reuters Staff U.S.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.

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China
Global
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COVID-19
Contagion
Disease
Government
Health
Pandemics
Science
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Situation Report

The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 09:04 — mike kraft

...As the global economy absorbs the most punishing reversal of fortunes since the Great Depression, hunger is on the rise. Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

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Africa
Conakry
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Guinea
Haiti
India
Liberia
Mexico
Middle East
Nepal
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
SouthEast Asia
United Nations
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COVID-19
Agriculture
Disease
Economics
Health
Pandemics
Poverty
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Desperation Mounts in Caribbean Islands: ‘All the Food Is Gone’

Mon, 2017-09-11 21:24 — Maeryn Obley

A street in St. Martin after Hurricane Irma. Residents spoke of a disintegration in law and order as survivors struggled in the face of severe food and water shortages. Credit Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Image: A street in St. Martin after Hurricane Irma. Residents spoke of a disintegration in law and order as survivors struggled in the face of severe food and water shortages. Credit Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

nytimes.com - Azam Ahmed and Kirk Semple - September 10th 2017

At dawn, people began to gather, quietly planning for survival after Hurricane Irma.

They started with the grocery stores, scavenging what they needed for sustenance: water, crackers, fruit.

But by nightfall on Thursday, what had been a search for food took a more menacing turn, as groups of people, some of them armed, swooped in and took whatever of value was left: electronics, appliances and vehicles.

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Global
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Disaster Response
Extreme Weather
Flood
Food
Water
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Stephen Palumbi: The Hidden Toxins in the Fish We Eat -- and How to Stop Them

Sun, 2014-07-20 17:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

ted.com - Filmed April 2010

There's a tight link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market. His work points a way forward for saving the oceans' health — and humanity's.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_palumbi_following_the_mercury_trail#t-923173

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Global
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Health
Oceans
Pollution
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