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Read before eating – wish it were not so but too many food stuffs being shipped that are not all safe.

eFoodAlert

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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United States

  • Allergy Alert:Kinnikinnick Foods (Edmonton, AB, Canada) recalls Kinnikinnick Frozen Pie Crust (290g/10-oz; 2/pkg; UPC 62013300600 9; Lots BB2013NO30, BB2013NO19, BB2013DE04, BB2013DE12, BB2013NO23, BB2013DE05, BB2013DE13, BB2013NO27, BB2013DE06, BB2013DE14, BB2013NO28, BB2013DE11, BB2013DE17, BB2013NO29), due to undeclared eggs. The recalled product was distributed across the USA.
  • Allergy Alert and Food Safety Recall:Humphrey’s Market, Inc. (Springfield, IL) recalls frozen ready-to-eat products and raw poultry products, repackaged on or before January 7, 2013, because they were produced without the benefit of inspection. In addition, the products may contain undeclared…

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A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Fresh off the news of a New Yorker throwing a brown-skinned man in front of a train for thinking he was Muslim (click here), the following tweets were brought to my attention of Americans who decided to go and watch Kathryn Bigelow’s new craptastic movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

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Not only is that excuse of movie Zero Dark Thirty grossly inaccurate, nauseatingly stereotypical and a disgustingly shameful propaganda (click here), but it seems to be resonating with its intended audience by rousing up their Islamophobia and racism.

This is not an isolated incidence in the United States. The growing sense in American culture that Islam is all a bunch of jihadists who can’t wait to blow themselves up is unacceptable. And American media not only propagates that feeling, it helps fuel it.

How is it legal to have a whole ethnicity and religion categorized as such in…

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Pride's Purge

(satire – probably)

In a shocking admission, minute traces of animal meat have been detected in some beefburgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, the Republic of Ireland’s food safety authority (FSAI) has said.

The FSAI said the meat came from two processing plants – one in Ireland, and another in Yorkshire – which are regular suppliers of the animal skin, bones, gristle and fat which normally make up the content of supermarket beefburgers.

The food safety authorities in both the UK and Ireland said there was no risk to human health from eating burgers which contain actual meat – apart from the usual risk of early death from heart disease, stroke and cancer which comes from eating too many crap supermarket meals.

The ‘meat’ burgers were on sale in Tesco and Iceland in the UK and Ireland but the FSAI said the retailers stated that they were removing…

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Buyer and eater beware

eFoodAlert

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please submit your request using the sidebar link.

United States

  • Allergy Alert:Boba Direct recalls Almond, Avocado, Banana, Blueberry, Café Latte, Cherry, Chocolate, Coconut, Honeydew, Lavender, Lychee, Mango, Matcha Green Tea, Milk Tea, Passionfruit, Peppermint, Pineapple, Red Bean, Strawberry, Taro, Vanilla and Watermelon BD Flavored Powders (2.2-lb plastic bags; Distributed from December 26, 2012 through January 4, 2013), due to undeclared milk. The recalled product was supplied to cafés, restaurants and smoothie shops throughout the USA.
  • Allergy Alert:Belmont Confections Inc. recalls Dymatize Nutrition Elite Cookies & Cream bars (1.5 oz and 3 oz…

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A Lifetime Of Service

Today’s post comes from our January Career Newsletter sponsor, Urban Teacher Center.

Urban Teacher Center (UTC) is looking to hire AmeriCorps Alums into its pioneering alternative teacher preparation program in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD (and soon additional cities).  The UTC program offers a year-long residency with a host teacher, a free-dual master’s, extensive one-on-one coaching and dual certification that is tied to demonstrating improvement in student achievement.  UTC quickly recognized that applicants with AmeriCorps experience were more prepared for its unique, rigorous program than applicants with other experiences.  UTC sees how spending a year in AmeriCorps instills a very strong passion, commitment and foundation for teaching in urban schools.

In fact, UTC just hired an AmeriCorps Alum, who was initially turned down by UTC in 2010. After being turned down, this alumna spent the next two years serving in an AmeriCorps program before applying again to UTC with her new…

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Europe watch you cheeses!

eFoodAlert

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please submit your request using the sidebar link.

Europe

  • Allergy Alert:Asda withdraws Asda Great Stuff Minced Beef Hotpot (200g; all date codes), because the product contains wheat/gluten, which is mentioned on the label but not in the allergen advice box.
  • Allergy Alert (Ireland): The Food Safety Authority of Ireland warns consumers that Rose Snowcreams (300g box Family Pack box; Best before 19/11/2013) contains undeclared egg, milk, soy and nuts, and should not be consumed by individuals who are allergic or intolerant to any of those ingredients.
  • Food Safety Recall (Belgium):Carrefour alerts its…

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Nervana

Imagge Pope

(Photo, arabianbusiness.com)  

Summery of the Week’s Main Headlines:

Monday

  • ElBaradei beefs up constitution partyleadership in preparation for parliamentary elections.
  • Negotiations with US to drop Egypt’s debt.
  • Tawadros II prays for Egypt and Morsi on Christmas
  • Egypt engages talks over $4.8 billion IMF loan
  • Egypt’s National Salvation Front parties bickerahead of parliamentary election.

 Tuesday

  • National Salvation Front to run two separate lists in elections.
  • Egypt must endorse IMF loan deal as its own: Lagarde
  • Qatar lends Cairo further £1.25bn and donates extra £300m in effort to control Egypt‘s currency crisis.
  • Sovereign Sekuk draft (Islamic fund) law released by the government
  • Egypt’s Minister of education instructs all schools to learn from Sheik Al-Arifi’s speech(Arabic).

Wednesday

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