Food Saftey

It's a scary thing how many recalls there are on food items.  What scares me even more is that only a few of them actually make it on the news (tv and paper).  Many recalls never get any publicity and many people get seriously ill because they eat foods with salmonella or other harmful stuff because they never knew there was a problem.

About 6 months ago I signed up for daily email alerts from the FDA and I can tell you that I got the alert on pistachios being recalled about at least a week before it hit the local news.  For the past week I've been reading about products containing Dry Milk being recalled.  I sill have not heard it on the news.

I'm big believer that knowledge is power so I'm sharing these two links with you so you can subscribe to the emails too if you want (I believe you can choose to get them daily or once a week).  We can't protect ourselves if we don't know there is a problem out there......

This is the link to the FDA page with the recalls/warnings.  (There is a link to subscribe)
www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

This is a direct link to the subscription page
service.govdelivery.com/service/subscribe.html

Toodles
Ruth

Thankks for the links.

I hated the peanut butter recall.  There wasn't a store in my area that had peanut butter.  At that time, I was living on the stuff. 

I have to be really careful, though, because I am a freak about germs and food.  My husband gets all pissy about me not eating food that anyone has touched in my sight.  LOL.  I know, weird.

Thanks for posting this, Ruth. I signed up for the alerts on this. I use to belong to a lot of the different things through the Government but then it just got to be to much so I stopped them. Now I am glad that you posted this so I could get the recalls. I think we all need to be aware of them...a lot of times they come out to late or not at all. That just isn't right...things need to be changed when recalls need to go out.

Thanks again...I appreciate it.