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Foreign Food Inspections on Decline as Illnesses From Imported Goods Rise
New York Times - 5/7/2013.
By Ron Nixon - Inside a warehouse near the Canadian border, boneless hams bound for Philadelphia are coming off a tractor-trailer from Toronto under the gaze of a federal food inspector. Each week, about 20 of the 150 food trucks from Canada are rejected because of paperwork problems or contaminated meat.
Michigan Study Finds Hazardous Chemicals In Gardening Water Hoses
Healthy Stuff - 5/7/2013.
High levels of hazardous chemicals, many of which have been banned in children’s products, were found in garden hoses for the second year in row. Phthalates and the toxic chemical BPA were all found in the water of a new hose after sitting outside in the sun for just a few days, according to researchers at the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center, which has just completed a study of toxic chemicals in garden hoses.
Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops
National Public Radio - 5/7/2013.
By Dan Charles - According to a new survey of America's beekeepers, almost a third of the country's honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.
Walter Robb: Whole Foods' other CEO on organic growth
CNN.com - 5/6/2013.
By Geoff Colviny - Selling groceries is a grinding, low-margin business - except for Whole Foods. The world's largest natural and organic grocer is a financial powerhouse with a market capitalization matching that of Kroger which is eight times its size by revenue.
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