http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm196024.htm
Nutty Guys Issues Public Notice on Voluntary Recall of Butter Toffee Peanuts and Yogurt Covered Peanuts
Contact:
Phone: 801-974-0633
Website: www.nuttyguys.com
Public Notice:
December 31, 2009 - Nutty Guys in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing a voluntary recall of all Butter Toffee Peanuts and Yogurt Covered Peanuts with sell by dates before March 15th 2010. Insects were discovered in some of these products. If you have affected Nutty Guys Products with a sell by date of March 15 2010 or earlier, please contact Nutty Guys for instructions and refund.
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At last the world is accepting that the Goat is not some common animal.
Stumbled on this search by accident and I have to agree, Goats deserve a HOUSE, not a common pen.
LOL, might as well give them a swimming pool, for mine liked to swim, a friend started it when my Breeding Buck was a few months old, he took him to spend the summer with his grandkids, mostly in the swimming pool.........and continued for several years.
Haaretz
Last update - 12:35 05/01/2010
IDF to blanket Israel with gas masks
By Amos Harel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1140016.html
The Home Front Command is planning to begin distribution of individual
protection kits, i.e. gas masks, to every citizen starting in late
February, according to a cabinet decision taken last week.
Originally, just over 60 percent of the population were to receive kits,
but a decision to extend that protection to the whole country means the
production of the necessary equipment has been stepped-up, and another
billion shekels is needed to fund to the endeavor.
The plan is to distribute protective kits to each of the nearly eight
million citizens (in line with a population estimate for 2013), over a
period of three years.
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Debate over how to appropriately defend against chemical and biological
warfare has been ongoing at both the political and professional levels
for more than a decade. Both the defense establishment and the Israel
Defense Forces have been involved in discussions.
Individual protection kits, in the form of gas masks, were used during
the first Gulf War in 1991.
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Audience: Vascular healthcare professionals, hospital risk managers
[Posted 01/05/2010] ev3 Endovascular, Inc. and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a Class I Recall of the Trailblazer Support Catheter. This device may crack near the radiopaque marker band. This may result in serious patient injury, including insufficient oxygen supply to the tissues, damage to blood vessels, heart attack, limb amputation, unplanned surgery, and/or death. See the Recall Notice for a listing of affected model and lot numbers, manufactured from September 11, 2009 through September 29, 2009 and distributed from September 21, 2009 through October 27, 2009.
Read the MedWatch safety summary, including a link to the Recall Notice, at:
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm196266.htm
How one farm got off the ground in Sarasota, Florida
SARASOTA - In an industrial park about a mile from Main Street, mechanics repair
cars, cleaners launder draperies and Vincent Dessberg grows crops on the roof of
his old glass shop.
Dessberg used to fuse glass into colorful windows. But after the economic downturn
he turned from the kiln, seeing better opportunity on his 3,000 square-foot roof.
“Nobody needs glass. Everybody needs to eat,” he said.
UK Grow your own food revolution plans to seed unused land
The government plans to launch a “grow your own” revolution by encouraging people
to set up temporary allotments or community gardens on land awaiting development
or other permanent use.
It aims to develop a “meanwhile” lease to formalise such arrangements between landowners
and voluntary groups and is considering establishing a “land bank” to broker better
links and ensure plots are not left idle.
58 Urban Beekeeping Photos
Urban Bee Rescuers. Photo credit: Janet and Kelly
“We were just beekeeping as a hobby, as gardeners and nature lovers, and soon we
could not keep up with the amount of emails from people who wanted us to rescue
their bees. So now we are the founders of backyardbees.net.”
Africa - Safe Wastewater Use In Urban/Peri Agriculture
In sub-saharan Africa, where sanitation infrastructure does not keep pace with city
growth, the use of polluted water for urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is
a common reality. While UPA puts consumers at risk; it also plays an important role
in food supply and job creation. The question is how to preserve the benefits while
minimizing the risks?
This short video clip gives voice to the people most closely involved, to articulate
their own solutions to the challenges they face. This video was produced by the
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and it’s partners to aid in knowledge
sharing.
Yemen: Urban agriculture - A solution to food insecurity
Yemen has suffered greatly during the world food crisis, since early 2008, which
increased the number of people in poverty. About two million people are depending
on the aids given by the World Food Program in Yemen.
The country imports as much as 75 per cent of its food requirements, and hence is
vulnerable to shortages in world stocks. Yemen’s poorest households may have no
mechanism to cope with astronomical prices, warned international aids agencies in
Yemen.
Fortune Magazine - Can farming save Detroit?
Fortune asked artist Bryan Christie to imagine how Detroit’s thousands of abandoned
residential acres might be transformed into cutting-edge, city-style farms (see
illustration above): Solar panels and windmills power vertical growing systems that
are efficient, attractive, and tourist-friendly. Greenhouses allow crops to grow
year-round. And new development sprouts on the periphery.
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
32 Years - 1978-2010
MELAMINE, MILK PRODUCTS - CHINA
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: 4 Jan 2010
Source: English.ntdty.com [edited]
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-01-04/148242373937.html
A new milk safety scandal has broken out in China. Authorities in
Shanghai have closed a dairy company and arrested 3 executives, after
milk products were found to contain high levels of the toxic
industrial chemical melamine.
According to the state-run Shanghai Daily, melamine was found in milk
powder and condensed milk made by the Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd.
Melamine is a toxic chemical used for making plastic. When added to
food it can make the protein content appear higher, but it is highly
detrimental to human health. [As well as other monogastric animals,
such as dogs and cats. - Mod.TG]
Last year, more than 300 000 children were poisoned and at least 6
died after drinking the tainted milk, according to Chinese state-run media.
In a similar incident last month [December 2009], Chinese authorities
also arrested 3 employees of the Shaanxi Jinqiao Diary Company for
producing melamine-tainted milk.
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Communicated by:
Sabine Zentis
[Melamine is an organic compound, a base with chemical formula
C3H6N6. Officially it is 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine in the IUPAC
nomenclature system (CAS #108-78-1). It is has a molecular mass of
just over 126, forms a white, crystalline powder, and is only
slightly soluble in water. It is used in fire retardants in polymer
resins because its high nitrogen content is released as
flame-stifling nitrogen gas when the compound is burned or charred.
Melamine has a very high nitrogen content, about 66 percent nitrogen
by mass. This high percentage of nitrogen gives it the analytical
characteristics of protein molecules. Melamine can also be described
as a trimer of cyanamide, 3 cyanamide units joined in a ring.
Melamine is listed on the material safety data sheets as being toxic.
The caveat is that the LD50 is on the order of ordinary table salt.
However, experience has shown, last year or so, that this protein
masquerading compound is not well metabolized by the stomach of
humans or cats or dogs, and since it is poorly soluble in water, it
is poorly excreted through the kidneys, resulting in kidney damage
that may be fatal.
The presumption is the powder was added to boost the protein content
on testing, but given the problems it has caused, one has to wonder
why anyone would want to go down that path of problems we saw with
this substance just last year or so.
Portions of this comment have been extracted from:
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/melamine-in-milk.html - Mod.TG]
[see also:
2008
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