wtf??????????

what's going on? i eat a LOT of peanuts and peanut products. i didn't have to give any of them up from the last recall because i know the source of my peanuts was not from the contamination site.

NOW PISTACHIO NUTS? i'm addicated and i know many others who are as well. what's happening with our food sources? i'd expect this from some countries BUT NOT OURS. how wrong am i?

truth be told i knew about the peanuts this is the FIRST i'm hearing about pistachios

FDA says to avoid pistachios amid salmonella scare

By GARANCE BURKE

The Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. -- Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination.

Still reeling from the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts, the Food and Drug Administration said central California-based Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling a portion of the roasted nuts it has been shipping since last fall. A Setton spokeswoman said that amounts to more than 2 million pounds of nuts.

"Our advice to consumers is that they avoid eating pistachio products, and that they hold onto those products," said Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food safety. "The number of products that are going to be recalled over the coming days will grow, simply because these pistachio nuts have then been repackaged into consumer-level containers."......

i did a bit of exploring on this site just now

and i liked what i saw. haven't tried it out on my phone yet though. i AM going shopping after work today, so i'll give it a test run THEN

i did join and sign up.


Great Tech Innovation: Find Food Health and Safety Info From Your Phone
By Tim Kingston, AlterNet.

The price of a dysfunctional food system is a potentially dangerous dinner. To put it bluntly, in our profit-driven food system, the very nutrients needed to stay alive could kill you. If it's not Chinese melamine in your milk, it's American E.coli in your spinach. If it's not the salmonella in your peanut butter from Georgia, it's that same bug in your Mexican green chilies. Consumers -- health conscious or not -- have a right to be paranoid.

What's to be done?

Try GoodGuide.com. The San Francisco start-up is a free, socially conscious, ethical-shopping Web site and is adding a new set of pages to its site devoted to food safety on March 16. The site is the brainchild of Dara O'Rourke, a University of California, Berkeley associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, and it offers more than you ever wanted to know about those mystery ingredients in your cereal, as well as the environmental footprint and the labor practices that go into manufacturing the roughly 30,000 packaged foods found in your local Safeway, Lucky or Ralph's.............