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Food and Supplement Safety
"Consumer Reports used its extensive testing and investigative resources to shine the light of foods, drugs and supplements consumed by tens of millions of Americans that account for significant safety risks, yet which consumers and government officials knew little about."
Tags: consumer safety; supplements; poultry; drugs; salmonella; campylobacter; FDA; Food and Drug Administration; protien drinks; Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
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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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A County Divided
The series documented the effects of an Latino immigrants to Ellijay - a small, predominantly white town in north Georgia. It specifically covers the impact immigrants have had on the workforce and local businesses.
Tags: illegal immigration; Latino; Georgia; business; Mexico; poultry; Pilgrim's Pride; Guatemala
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The Cruelest Cuts
The investigation revealed how officials in the poultry industry have ignored and threatened injured workers as they created an illusion of safety inside their plants. The practice helped companies boost profits, but it has also jeopardized the health of thousands of poultry workers.
Tags: worker safety; Latino; poultry; OSHA; Raeford Farms; injury; factory
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No Act of God
Amicus Journal looks at the damage caused when Hurricane Floyd flooded hog and poultry farms in North Carolina contaminating rivers and wells.
Tags: pollution; hog farms; North Carolina; Hurricane Floyd
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Meat Processing plants fail tests, yet stay open
A Des Moines Register investigation revealed that "meat and poultry processing plants that fail to meet food-safety standards have continued operating for months after problems were detected, shipping products to consumers while additional testing was done."
Tags: health meat processing inspection business Department of Agriculture salmonella listeria USDA
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The plucking of the American chicken farmer
This three-part series examines how chicken farmers were being exploited by giant poultry companies. Farmers were working a burdensome, low-income job that left them too indebted to quit and too powerless to fight back.
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Poultry's Hidden Price
This Wilmington, DE News Journal article finds that manure produced by the poultry industry and spread on farm fields is polluting streams, rivers, bays and contaminating groundwater.
Tags: contamination; nitrogen; phosphorus; farmers; environment
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The trouble with meat
Unfortunately, the grim reality of E. coli infection is not an isolated stain on the reputation of an otherwise hygenic American meat supply. E. coli, along with other meat-borne pathogens like Salmonella Ententidis and campylobacter, both found in poultry, can be traced to our highly productive "factory farms." Genetically "optimized" pigs, cattle, sheep, turkeys and chickens are raised in tightly packed confinement systems -- an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.
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Fox in the henhouse
Jim Blair is surrounded by suspicions. Now, as prosecutors unveil new findings about Arkansas wheeling and dealing, this poultry impresario is fighting the feds. Blair discusses his relationships with the Clintons and Tyson Foods Inc.
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