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Search results for "Bad food" ...
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Trouble on the Tray
This series found problems in the federal, state, and local programs that supplied food to the nation’s schoolchildren. Some of the major findings: beef supplied for school lunches wouldn’t pass at national fast-food restaurants, chicken found at schools is only quality enough for pet food, supplied recalled beef to schools, failed to inform schools of bad tortillas, and many schools lacked the two inspections per year.
Tags: Food safety; Schoolchildren; Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Schools; Cafeteria; Government; Lunch; Beef; Children; Food; Bad food; E. coli
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Bad Bargain
This article identifies several people who suffered consequences after switching from brand name drugs to generic ones. Furthermore, this article identifies loopholes that allow these generic drugs to reach the market. These generics, many of us believe are the same as the brand name ones, are actual substandard and un-equivalent.
Tags: Prescriptions; Drugs; Generic; Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Insurance companies; Brand Name; Doctors; Pharmacy; Pharmaceuticals
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Danger on Your Plate
The Center for Investigative Reporting hired the food analysis lab of the Sarajevo Veterinary School to test food samples purchased in farmers' markets, food shops and stalls to determine food safety. Center reporters found problems with contamination, government inspection, labeling, waste, and NGO's that collect money but "really do little to guard consumers against bad food."
Tags: food safety; Mad Cow Disease; CIN; Linking Agricultural Markets to Producers; LAMP; E.coli; proteus; alfotoxins; bacteria; fungi; food handling; TRACES animal tracking; smuggling; World Health Organization; Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations; EU
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The killing fields
GQ questions the mass killing of cows in Britain during the food-and-mouth epidemic, and finds it to be "an epic waste." The story exposes political reasons behind the drastic measures. "The pyres are unnecessary ... for the simple reason that foot-and-mouth rarely kills," the magazine reports. The reporter quotes epidemiologists who say that, "in clinical terms, foot-and-mouth is about as serious , to animals or to people, as a bad cold." A major finding is that Britain has chosen to ban the vaccine, because it is difficult to distinguish vaccinated animals from infected animals. Many countries - U.S. amongst them - would not import "tainted" meat, even if it poses no risk to human health, the story reveals.
Tags: mad cow; foot-and-mouth; Tony Blair; politics; politicians; animals; virus; vaccines; agriculture; immune system; laws; world trade; health
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A Bad Business: Ephedra Supplements, Parts I and II
This series "broke the news of two significant federal reports linking the use of ephedra, a commonly available supplement, to life-threatening conditions as well as several fatal heart attacks among otherwise healthy young people. Ephedra is a stimulant available over the counter in drug stores and grocery and health food stores."
Tags: disk; ephedra; supplements; over-the-counter drugs; health
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Bad stores taint grocery industry
Using grocery inspection data from the Michigan Department of Agriculture, the Free Press found "at least 44 stores statewide have been issued 'insanitary notices' because of conditions of extreme filth or pest infestations."
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Bad Apples
The American Prospect reports how "Everyone has had a 'bad' teacher. Incompetent, unfeeling, or maybe just aggressively uninspiring, the occasional bad teacher is as much a fixture in America's schools as lousy cafeteria food and detention hall. Critics regard the presence of bad teachers as confirmation of their worst fears about public education - namely, that some combination of union contracts, tenure, civil service protections, litigation-wary administrators, and general institutional inertia are getting in the way of child's learning. (Some examples) have now become part of a considerable arsenal of anecdotal evidence that suggests even flagrant incompetents are hard to fire. (But other examples) suggest a more complex story... Is it a cautionary tale about how the 'age of accountability' in education reform has made all teachers -- even inspired ones -- vulnerable and gun-shy, serving as scapegoats for our collective discontent about the state of public education?"
Tags: Teachers; educational system; public schools; bureaucracy
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Bad judgment
Detroit Recorder's Court is one of the busiest criminal courts in the nation, and has earned a reputation for serving up fast food justice. WXYZ exposes the slowest judge in Recorder's Court, where criminals go free, victims are victimized again and tax dollars pay for unnecessary delays.
Tags: TAPE Attorney General
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Dirty Dogs; In bad taste
Daily News (New York) exposes street corner food vendors, much of whose food is prepared in filthy conditions by homeless men in shelters amid feces and urine; finds a severe lack of oversight by the Department of Health