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From the Associated Press: Veggie Booty recalled due to tainting concerns
WASHINGTON – A popular snack food sold nationwide is being recalled because of concerns about contamination.
All lots and sizes of Veggie Booty Snack Food are being recalled, the company said, following a report of 51 cases of salmonella poisoning that may be associated with the product.
Georgine Hertzwig of Robert’s American Gourmet in Sea Cliff, N.Y., said the company acted after the Food and Drug Administration contacted them about the illnesses in 17 states.
Too bad there are no inspections at food processing plants to detect these problems before they leave the facility, instead of depending on the Centers for Disease Control and people’s gastrointestinal tracts to check for problems.
CBS reports: U.S. To Stop Some Chinese Seafood Imports
(CBS/AP) Farmed seafood joined tires, toothpaste and toy trains on the list of tainted and defective products from China that could be hazardous to a person’s health.
Federal health officials said Thursday that they were detaining three types of Chinese fish — catfish, basa and dace — as well as shrimp and eel after repeated testing has turned up contamination with drugs unapproved in the United States for use in farmed seafood.
The officials said there was no immediate health risk and stopped short of ordering an outright ban.
Each year, the U.S. imports 150 million pounds of shrimp from China, a $300 million annual market, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. Now Chinese “farm-raised” shrimp is off-limits and future imports will be blocked unless suppliers can show the seafood is clean.
With a little help, the shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico might be able to get back to work, but then they would compete with the Republans’ masters who import cheap garbage from China. Shrimpers tend to be small business owners, not the corporations that control the GOP.
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I’ve seen Veggie Booty on the shelf; I guess it’s a good thing I don’t like Trendy Pricey Vegetarian Snack Food. (It’s those spicy snack mixes from India that will do me in someday.) I think Stella once bought a bag of the salmonella snack, not to eat, but so she could tell people who were rude to her about her food preferences that they could just kiss her Veggie Booty.
FWIW, I’ve just seen my first FDA-interdicted Mexican food item: Valentina’s hot sauce. (Think of red Louisiana hot sauce and you won’t be far off the mark.) Sigh. I miss it already. It was nearly as good at $0.79/bottle as Cholula is at nearly three bucks a bottle. I was not able to find details on the web, but a sign on a grocer’s shelf says the FDA stopped the importation.
The producer of Valentina is tamazula. Search tamazula in http://www.fda.gov and you will see it hasn’t entered the country because of pesticides.