tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post735831066845807903..comments2024-02-12T05:30:13.488-05:00Comments on Fanatic Cook: The Label GameBixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263963508785739508noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post-30278251235837082142013-02-24T14:12:52.949-05:002013-02-24T14:12:52.949-05:00Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey
"The...<a href="http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/#.USpU91eS9fk" rel="nofollow">Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey</a><br /><br />"The Food and Drug Administration says that any product that’s been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen isn’t honey."<br />...<br />"It’s no secret to anyone in the business that the only reason all the pollen is filtered out is to hide where it initially came from and the fact is that in almost all cases, that is China."<br />...<br />"Ultra-filtration ... is a deceptive, illegal, unethical practice."<br />...<br />"Chinese honey [has been] contaminated with chloramphenicol and other illegal animal antibiotics which are dangerous, even fatal, to a very small percentage of the population."<br />...<br />"Many in the honey industry and some in FDA’s import office say they doubt that FDA checks more than 5 percent of all foreign honey shipments."<br />...<br />"In many cases, consumers would have an easier time deciphering state secrets than pinning down where the honey they’re buying in groceries actually came from."<br />...<br />"I think we need a truth in labeling law in the U.S. as they have in other countries."Bixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06263963508785739508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post-56885038993197651832013-02-23T08:12:59.006-05:002013-02-23T08:12:59.006-05:00The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. I learned a lot fr...The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. I learned a lot from that little book.<br /><br />I think problems occurred when food production was scaled up, industrialized, at the turn of the century. I think the emergence of the FDA (its precursor at least) at that time did improve food quality. Now though there's another scaling up, if you will - in the globalization of food. Lots of opportunity for corruption.<br /><br />I'm reading this:<br /><br /><a href="http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2211/1/1744-8603-6-21.pdf" rel="nofollow">Organised crime and the efforts to combat it: a concern for public health</a><br />http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2211/1/1744-8603-6-21.pdf<br /><br />The paper:<br /><br />"...looks at the effect of globalisation on integrating supply chains from poorly-regulated and impoverished source regions through to their distant markets, often via disparate groups of organised criminals who have linked across their traditional territories for mutual benefit and enhanced profit, with both traditional and newly-created linkages between production, distribution and retail functions of cooperating criminal networks from different cultures. It discusses the interactions between criminals and the structures of the state which enable illegal and socially undesirable activities to proceed on a massive scale through corruption and subversion of regulatory mechanisms."Bixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06263963508785739508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post-12627873398163146222013-02-22T15:49:18.374-05:002013-02-22T15:49:18.374-05:00"The confluence of globalization of our food ..."The confluence of globalization of our food supply with austerity measures won't bode well for the quality and safety of food."<br /><br />That's a long, long conversation. <br /><br />I couldn't help, after reading this post, thinking back to the book you read on the meat packing district ... There's a notion that we've progressed far from that type of food industry, but have we?<br /><br />shauncaulfieldkidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220688207706880140noreply@blogger.com