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Search results for "chicken" ...
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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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"Fowl Play"
In "Fowl Play," writer Tula Karras warns consumers of the potential dangers lurking in their chicken dinners. Arsenic and other harmful bacteria have been found in poultry, making it possible for those who consume it to become ill. Many chicken plants rely on "visual" safety "inspections" even though harmful bacteria cannot be seen by the "naked eye."
Tags: Chicken; poultry; campy; campylobacter infection; arsenic; gastrointestinal; USDA; bacteria; pathogens
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Chicken Wings
WCAU-TV "exposed an illegal, unlicensed and unsanitary chicken wing processing business in Philadelphia rowhome garage." Using hidden cameras they found which restaurants were serving the chicken wings and confronted them. They also found that these restaurants also had poor health inspection reports. As a result of the investigation the chicken wing processing business was closed.
Tags: food; safety; health; restaurants; consumer; chicken; illegal business; health inspection; health code; hidden camera
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Weekend Warriors
An investigation on the ManKind Project, a national organization for men which has branches in Texas. Michael Scinto attended one of the weekend campouts and committed suicide a week later. It turns out that men were being stripped naked and blindfolded for walks, naked men would stand around hammering cooked chickens, and other unsettling acts.
Tags: support group; 12-step recoveryp; reprogram; MKP;
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Missouri Chicken Pox Vaccine
This reporter working closely with the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules checks out why there is opposition to a law making Chicken Pox vaccines mandatory. According to this story, this issue is being debated in other states such as Illinois since some medical professionals are against the inoculations.
Tags: Chicken Pox vaccines; vaccination; inoculation; Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; JCAR; Illinois; medical professionals; immunization
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The Dating Game
Dateline NBC attempts to answer the question "how safe and fresh is the meat, chicken and fish we buy in the supermarkets? ... By conducting hundreds of interviews, examining regulations in 50 states, and secretly tracking thousands of pieces of meat, Dateline uncovered evidence of a widespread deception crossing both state and corporate lines, involving the largest grocery store chains in the nation. (The) investigation centered on 'sell-by' dates -- those tiny dates stamped on every package that are supposed to tell us how old meat is and when to throw it away."
Tags: food; meat; chicken; fish; safe; sell-by; supermarkets; chains; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Child immigrants worked on line at chicken plant
The Herald-Leader reports on the use of child labor in processing plants in Kentucky and nationwide. The story reveals that as young as 12-year-old children have been hired by Cagle's Keystone Foods. The same practices are common also at Tyson plants in Arkansas and Missouri. The children, who in most cases had entered the country illegally, showed fake IDs and looked older, the plant managers explained. The article reports that, according to the U.S. Labor Department, many chicken processing plants are aware of the fake identities of their immigrant workers. Most plants have policies of recruiting illegal immigrants in the Southwestern border area and even in Mexico.
Tags: illegal immigration; labor; Hispanic; Clinton County; Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS)
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The Most Important Fish In The Sea
Discover reports on the decline of a fish called menhaden, one of the most important links in the food chain. Menhaden are used as high protein feed for chicken, cattle and hogs. Many larger fish consumed by humans feed on menhaden. The decline in their numbers is cause for alarm. Not only is the food chain suffering, but the algae and detritus which menhaden feed on now clogs inland waters. "Since market forces are unlikely to curtain the menhaden fishery, governments may have to take action," Discover reports.
Tags: food chain; environment; menhaden
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Lackmann sustains questionable food safety standards
"Lackmann Culinary Services, Hofstra University's food supplier maintains nine eating facilities on campus that were found to have a variety of unsanitary and harmful food handling and preparation practices even Lackmann corporate officials admitted could be endangering the health of patrons."
Tags: food safety; sanitation; garbage; pathogen bacteria; chicken salad; Nassau County Board of Health
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Not Plucking Around
This article examines the five-year-long feud between two of the most powerful men in East Texas that "has divided loyalties in both Titus and Camp Counties, which together are the production center of Pilgrim's $2 billion-per-year chicken empire."
Tags: business; chicken; Texas; Bo Pilgrim; Bill Ratliff