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Food Safety’s Biggest Challenge: The American Diet

Americans are rightly concerned about the wide variety of pathogens that regularly turn up in foods common to most diets. Dietary and lifestyle factors in the US are responsible for death rates that exceed most other Westernized countries.

Few of us probably sufficiently ascribe the quality of our diet to our basic state of health.
And so as 2010 unfolds, take time to consider the fundamentals of your diet and the critical food safety issue it represents. Contaminated foods can certainly result in very serious illness, but a good diet can help ensure long-term health.

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Tags: American Diet, contaminated foods, food quality, food safety issue

Food Industry Under Pressure To Cut Salt

Packaged and restaurant foods should reduce their salt content by 25 percent over the next five years, says a national campaign led by New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley..

Nearly 80 percent of all salt consumed is added to foods before they are sold.

The American Meat Institute, which has published a fact sheet on the health and safety benefits of salt say it has “been active in the draft target process, participating in numerous webinars and meetings during the past several months, specifically addressing the proposed meat food category definitions, sodium reduction targets, the need for sodium functionality in meat products and food safety concerns.”

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Tags: American Meat Institute, Food safety, meat, salt

Russia Bans U.S. Poultry Over Chlorine

With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New Year’s Day.

Russia joins the European Union in prohibiting the use of chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production, which is commonly used in the United States.

American poultry exports to Russia are the biggest component of U.S. agricultural exports to the former Soviet Union.

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Tags: chlorine, poultry, poultry safety, Russia