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Eating Out: How Does The Restaurant Rate?

The average American eats restaurant food five or more times a week, and every day 133 million eat out. They may be at risk for various health hazards, but they never know about it, according to an investigative report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group concerned with nutrition and food safety.
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Eating Healthy When Eating Out

Restaurant food has increasingly become a major part of the average American’s daily diet — one meal out of three daily meals is now eaten outside of the home. ...
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Initiative to Produce Safer Tomatoes

The fresh tomatoes on your salad may soon be much safer to eat. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will expand its Tomato Safety Initiative from Virginia, where it was launched this summer, to Florida in the fall. ...
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Congress Wants FDA To Write Food Safety Plan

In its $90.7 billion agriculture funding bill passed Thursday, August 2, the U.S. House included a provision that directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to submit a plan to improve its work on food safety....
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Want Oysters? Don’t Eat Them Raw

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to stay away from raw oysters harvested from oyster beds in Washington State after these were linked to several cases of vibriosis, a food-borne illness. The infections were reported in Washington state and in California....
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Keep Plastic Containers Out Of Microwaves

Information coming out of Johns Hopkins University and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center indicates that it is unsafe to use plastic containers or plastic wraps in microwave ovens. ...
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FDA Funds Lack Hobbles Food Safety Plans

The resources of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been strained almost to the breaking point as the agency tries to respond effectively to the outbreak of a rare Salmonella strain that has affected at least 167 people in 17 states....
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Salmonella Outbreak Hits 16 States

A Salmonella outbreak associated with eating raw red tomatoes has already spread to 16 states, affecting at least 145 people, according to the Food and Drug Administration. There have been no deaths so far, and only 25 people have required hospitalization. ...
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