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In China, fear of rubber eggs and poisonous poultry prompt Olympian athletes to raise their own chickens
Breakfast of Champions Breakfast menu: Rubber eggs, recycled buns, fresh squeezed orange juice with arsenic, clenbuterol flavored bacon, milk fortified with melamine. For lunch the menu takes a decidedly twisted turn: Hamburgers made with a 1/4 pound of beef laced with Borax and nitrite fried in gutter oil, mushrooms seasoned with Clorox, slices of juicy red tomato injected with hormones,…
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Tip of the Iceberg Report: Fraudulent Certified Organic Products from China
The Titanic ignored the warning, and look what happened to them For the second time this year the USDA is warning organic distributors of fake certified organic products coming from China. Earlier this year on February 11, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) publicly released evidence of fraud by a Chinese organic agricultural marketer. The agency’s National Organic Program (NOP) made…
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Evanger’s food fraud shenanigans thwarted by blogger
The owners of Evanger’s Dog and Cat Food Company, obviously not the brightest criminals around, attempt to pull a fast one on the public and the FDA but was outed by blogger Phyllis Entis (AKA the foodbuglady) at eFoodAlert. Remarkably, the essential detail that eluded the public, and possibly the FDA as well, was brought to light when Ms. Entis…
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Evanger’s caught in pet food fraud: Plain ol’ beef substituted for duck and lamb
You know it’s going to be a bad day for food safety when it starts out with watermelons exploding in China, an FDA recall for three brands of pathogenic pig ears for Salmonella contamination, and the FDA discovery that two of Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food did not have what it was supposed to have in it: There wasn’t any…