Meat & Poultry to Get Nutrition Labels by 2012

January 13th, 2011 - Gerald "Gerry" Pugliese

REDMEATSTEAK

Go to the supermarket and start pulling products off the shelves and you’ll see everything has nutrition labels, even water! And now, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says starting in 2010, nutrition labels will be mandatory on many popular cuts of meat and poultry too.

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Banned in Europe, Food Coloring Linked to Behavior Problems

December 16th, 2010 - Jill Ettinger

common food dyes linked to behavioral issues in children

In 1976, M&M candies discontinued their “Red M” amidst concerns over the potentially fatal risk of red food coloring that contained amaranth (in FD&C Red #2), suspected as being cancer-causing. Though M&M did not use this dye in the product pulled from store shelves, fears about red-dyed foods were so heightened, the red-colored candy did not return for more than a decade.

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