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Lettuce Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns
BREITBART/AP ^ | Oct 08 5:31 PM US/Eastern | By RACHEL KONRAD

Posted on 10/08/2006 3:23:02 PM PDT by US Navy guy

Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there has been recalled over concerns about E. coli contamination.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: lettuce; usfoodsupply
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To: Just another Joe

All these years they were raising "The Comic Book Guy" from the Simsons.


41 posted on 10/09/2006 6:39:26 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
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To: bwteim
create a new federal agency in charge of food safety....

Hmmm....I thought that was what the FDA was supposed to do already?....I think environmentalism is to blame. Recycle this, recycle that, no pesticide this, no pesticide that, no DDT this, no DDT that, cut corners here, cut corners there. All for the same of Organicism, California is one of the worst environmentalist kook-oh enclaves of nuts I've ever seen or heard of. I'm not buying produce from Callie ever again if I can help it....

42 posted on 10/09/2006 7:13:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: hedgetrimmer
Our food safety standards were relaxed during the Clinton Administration, they had to be lowered because having high standards is considered a barrier to trade by the "free traitors".

Maybe you missed this: Food Illnesses Decline, CDC reports

Looks like the system you scorn is doing a pretty good job. It's a good thing we don't accept what you want us to believe without checking the facts first.

43 posted on 10/09/2006 10:26:55 AM PDT by Mase
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To: Mase
Looks like the system you scorn is doing a pretty good job.

I scorn the UN, but you don't.
44 posted on 10/09/2006 6:21:00 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

You scorn the FDA for making your food safer, or the CDC for reporting it?


45 posted on 10/09/2006 7:06:16 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I scorn the UN, and regret the American people elected such a president as Clinton, who ordered the harmonization of our standards downward to the Codex Alimentarius and left decisions about our food safety to international 'working groups'. Apparently you have a vested interest in them.


46 posted on 10/09/2006 7:55:40 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: 1rudeboy

She probably holds both organizations in contempt since they're staffed by people she didn't get to vote for. Makes them unconstitutional as well.


47 posted on 10/09/2006 7:56:51 PM PDT by Mase
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To: Mase

Shouldn't you ping the person you are talking about? Its only polite, after all.

I never met a conservative who didn't believe in elected representation-- . Clearly self government isn't something that you care about, or concerns you.


48 posted on 10/10/2006 5:52:24 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

I think it's getting past the point where you should get a pass for sloganeering. Are you saying that your elected representatives on the FDA could've prevented this outbreak, or that simply abolishing this Codex-thingie would make us all live happily ever after, with no threat of food contamination?


49 posted on 10/10/2006 5:58:16 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: US Navy guy

FYI

Codex Alimentarius Commission acts as the world's food standards setting body by creating standards and guidelines to govern international trade through ratifications of standards and guidelines ("texts"). Trade disputes between nations are settled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) which can impose substantial trade sanctions on non compliant countries unless they have protected their rights to enforce their own health standards domestically and through international trade by using the "Codex 2 Step" (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml).

Although Codex texts are voluntary and advisory (ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/Alinorm06/al29_41e.pdf),(paragraph 24, p. 4) lack of compliance with Codex texts can result in punishing WTO sanctions.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb444957.htm


50 posted on 10/10/2006 7:05:25 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: 1rudeboy

Your defense of a supranational institution effecting controls over any facet of life in the United States is unsurprising and anti-American.


51 posted on 10/10/2006 7:06:36 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
Welcome to the daily hedgetrimmer strawman-festival. Here's a hint for you: observing that food safety has improved does not make one a defender of the UN.
52 posted on 10/10/2006 7:15:32 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: hedgetrimmer
Your defense of a supranational institution effecting controls over any facet of life in the United States is unsurprising and anti-American.

And your solution is for the American public to elect every bureaucrat for every position within every government agency? Is this what pro-American citizens believe? Is this what the Constitution calls for?

53 posted on 10/10/2006 8:35:29 AM PDT by Mase
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To: 1rudeboy

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE SEND TED TURNER A SALAD.


54 posted on 10/10/2006 8:37:07 AM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: 1rudeboy; hedgetrimmer
..observing that food safety has improved does not make one a defender of the UN.

Using hedgelogic, it must make us advocates for open borders then.

55 posted on 10/10/2006 8:37:56 AM PDT by Mase
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