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trying to salvage that to make a buck.”
redering food safe for consumption, there • In 8 ounces of macaroni there could be 225
Is
Your
“rubber
chicken”
Shockingly, Jay
Cole, former federal inspec-A
wouldRetread?
be less of an issue.
insect fragments or 4.5 rodent hairs
Get that.... NO WAY TO TELL IF THE tor who works with the FDA Group, says, The Snokist officials found that the process • In 3.5 oz of canned mushrooms 20 or more
Is your “rubber chicken” a RETREAD?
PREPACKAGED FOOD YOU BOUGHT
HAS BEEN “RECONDITIONED”... AND
THE FDA SAYS THAT’S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE?
IS IT TO YOU?
http://occupycorporatism.com/fda-allowscorporations-to-recondition-old-food/
FDA Allows Corporations to
“Recondition” Old Food
Susanne Posel / Occupy Corporatism
In order to save money, some corporations
will repackage older food into new packaging and resell it. One public school lunch
supplier tried this with moldy apple sauce
re-canned and was reprimanded to never try
that “stunt” again.
The FDA was contacted by Snokist Growers of Yakima, Washington. This is just one
group trying to ensure “reworking” food is
not a normal practice.
“I was appalled that there were actually
human beings that were OK with this,” said
Kantha Shelke, a food scientist and spokeswoman for the Institute of Food Technologists. “This is a case of unsafe food. They are
“Any food can be reconditioned.”
Perhaps pieces of pasta will be re-ground
into semolina.
Mislabeled blueberry ice cream mixed with
chocolate to avoid waste.
Insect parts discovered in cocoa beans.
Live bugs “left behind” in dried fruits packages.
Or salmonella bacteria found in hydrolyzed
vegetable protein (HVP) which is a flavor enhancer used in gravy mix, snack foods, dairy
products, spices and soups (just to name a
few).
“This is how people do their business,” says
Shelke.
The FDA allowed food producers like Basic
Food Flavors, Inc (BFF) to recondition their
recalled items in 2010 by heat-treating their
products to remove salmonella. BFF then reprocessed the food and distributed them for
sale to the public.
The FDA justifies this unsafe practice by
stating that it reduces water and saves money.
Yet this occurs at the expense of public safety
and health.
Ifthe processes approved by the FDA were
the FDA permitted as safe for the reconditioning of the applesauce rendered the food
sterile and effectively worthless as a nutritional substance by a common toxin produced by the mold in the apple sauce.
The FDA stands by its thermal process even
though it does not protect against mycotoxins in the food.
“Mold is not an easily reconditionable product,” says William Correll, the FDA’s acting
director of compliance.
The FDA admits they expect a certain level
of contaminants and toxins to enter food
during the processing process because they
claim a zero-tolerance policy would be too
difficult to achieve.
The FDA relies on defect action levels to define how dangerous a contaminant is in the
food and how much enforcement of their
policies they should engage the manufacturer
in.
Basically, if making the food safe is too difficult, the FDA does not bother enforcing their
safety policies.
Here are a few examples of allowable contaminants:
of the recent defeat of California’s
Proposition 37, public opposition
to GMO foods continues to increase.] NaturalSociety
Poland is on its way to banning
the cultivation of GMO foods. [A
stead of manslaughter through professional
ineptitude. Many feel that the fine is a mere
slap on the wrist.] LA Times 2013 Jan 3
(Cached)
maggots is ok
• In canned cranberry sauce there could be
an average of 15% mold
The FDA finds these levels acceptable because there would be too much stress on
food producers to adhere to a more stringent
policy for food safety.
Correll plainly says, “You can’t cook the
poop out of [food].”
The FDA begun the Reportable Food Registry in 2009 to handle the overwhelming
notifications to human health hazards their
relaxed policies produced.
The problems were hard to decipher with
domestic food processing corporations, but
foreign import food corporations added a
cog in the wheel. These corporations generally go to greater lengths to preserve the safety
of their food; more so than the FDA.
As it stands, the FDA reconditions food that
we purchase in grocery stores.
There is no way to know what foods are
genuine and which have been reconditioned.
US Gov has banned 75-watt incandescent light bulbs
The US government has banned 75-watt
incandescent light bulbs and, next year, will
phase out 60 and 40-watt bulbs. [Most of
these will be replaced by CFL bulbs, which
pose an environmental and health hazard
because of their mercury content. Recent
research has found they also generate toxic
chemicals when turned on.] NaturalSociety
97% of children who contracted
mumps in the 2009 mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey
had previously received the antimumps vaccine. [Most of them had
full ban is planned for January 28th and
will include Monsanto’s maize and BASF’s
potato. This is the eighth EU state to take
this action.] Set You Free news
Transocean drilling company,
charged with responsibility for the
received it twice, showing once again that errors leading to the 2010 oil spill
vaccines are ineffective � at best.] Natural in the Gulf of Mexico, settled with
News
the Justice Department for $1.4
New Mexico has introduced leg- billion. [A Transocean subsidiary pled
islation to label GMOs. [In spite guilty to discharging oil into the ocean in-
Feds Say Oakland Can’t Block
Seizure of Harborside Medical
Pot Dispensary
Activist Post
The Feds are at it again.
Their relentless attempt to shut
down
the largest medical marijuana shop in the
world, Harborside Health Center, continues.
After losing a recent court judgement that
said they couldn’t evict Harborside under
federal forfeiture, the Feds are now making
the argument that the state and city cannot
stand in their way of seizing the dispensary.
Back in July, the federal government filed
forfeiture proceedings against the property
that Harborside rents. Although Harborside
has not violated any state laws, action by
the Feds essentially forced the landlords
Anna Chretien and Concourse Business
Center to file eviction charges with the
Feds.
On Friday November 30th of this year a
superior court ruled that Harborside cannot be evicted from their location simply
because their product violates federal law.
The granted stay of forfeiture was seen as
a huge victory for Harborside and for state
sovereignty in a never-ending battle by the
Feds.
“We are heartened by the robust support
provided to Harborside by our elected officials and the California courts,” said Harborside’s co-founder Steve DeAngelo. “The decision makes it clear that organizations that
comply with state law deserve the protection
of that law.”
“For years, in medical cannabis cases, California state courts have followed a principle
that cities should not be able to ask a state
court to ‘indirectly’ enforce federal controlled substance laws in a way that disadvantages cannabis patients and caregivers,”
said Harborside’s lawyer, Henry Wykowski.
“However, this is the first opinion that extends that principle to private actors, such as
landlords.”
US: Six nurses were fired by a hospital in Indiana for not accepting
flu shots. [Two more quit for the
reason. Some refused on religious
Scientists report that fructose, pri- same
grounds and some because they were conmarily made from corn, bypasses cerned over the toxic components of vacthe brain’s sensor that tells us that we cines which they felt were not effective anyare full, and that causes overeating. way.] WSBT
[Corn fructose is in almost all processed
US: The FDA allows radioactive
foods, soft drinks, and sweets. Read the la- zapping of food for longer shelf
bels. Does this suggest a New Year’s resolulife. [One zap is equal to 2.5 million chest
tion?]
x-rays. Theoretically, the x-rays do not
US Birth rates are falling, large- linger in the food, but they do change its
ly because Latin immigrants are structure, destroying nutrients and creating
choosing smaller families to im- chemical by-products that are not found in
prove their economic status and nature and are linked to cancer.] NaturalSorise into the middle class. DailyMail ciety 2012 Dec 29 (Cached)
However, that
small victory for
Harborside
was
short lived.
The
Feds
have now
cha l l e nge d
the ruling saying that they
have the power over states
and cities because they
have no ownership in the
property being seized, and
federal law supersedes state
law.
In a brief, Justice Department attorney Kathryn
Wyer writes:
Plaintiff, the City of
Oakland, has initiated this
separate action in an attempt to halt forfeiture proceedings that the United
States has initiated against
an Oakland property housing a marijuana dispensary.
Plaintiff ’s lawsuit was filed
after the time to assert a
claim in the forfeiture action itself had passed. And
in any event, Plaintiff lacks
any ownership interest
in the property. Plaintiff
therefore lacks standing to
participate in the forfeiture action
The brief further notes that the Controlled
Substance Act applies to all states no matter
if they have changed their own laws or not:
Plaintiff argues that the United States is
stopped from seeking forfeiture of the Oakland property because it had adopted a ‘pol-
icy of nonenforcement’ of the CSA against
all those in compliance with state law. Even
assuming that the marijuana dispensary operating at the Oakland property – which is
alleged to be the largest on the planet, with
annual gross sales revenue of $20 million –
were in compliance with California law, this
claim cannot succeed.
...the United States has never misrepresented the fact that marijuana distribution,
possession, and cultivation remain illegal under federal law...
Wyer even takes a swipe at the state and city
for only sticking up for Harborside because
“it has received a windfall of millions of dollars in tax and sales revenues through the
operation of illegal marijuana dispensaries
within its borders.”
Indeed, Harborside has been a major benefit to the state of California and Oakland,
as it’s estimated $20 million in annual sales
operating as a non-profit have generated over
$3 million is local and state taxes. Yet, apparently Wyer thinks that is a bad thing.
Clearly the Feds have little respect for state
rights, property rights, medical rights, and
local sovereignty -- all of which are being
tried in this case. Meanwhile, one of the most
respected, lawful, and successful medical
marijuana treatment centers is facing closure.
Learn more about the Harborside Health
Center by watching their video:
A recent Gallup poll showed that 64% of
Americans want the federal government out
of state marijuana laws:
Even 43% of people who think marijuana
should not be legalized believe that the Feds
should leave the states alone.
If you’re interested in sending your thoughts
to DOJ attorney Kathryn Wyer regarding this
case, please contact her below: