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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you rinse your fruits and vegetables thoroughly because you’re worried about ingesting pesticides, you won’t like the conclusion of a recently published study. It appears that washing fruit and vegetables is not enough to remove pesticides. Some will still remain on the surface, and the only way to completely get rid of them might be to peel them.

Washing fruit won’t completely remove pesticides, so this is what you have to do

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announed a nationwide public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, a country not authorized to export such products to the United States.

USDA Issues Nationwide Public Health Alert for Illegally Imported Meat and Poultry Products from Mya

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for ensuring the safety of the U.S. food supply, but a new study reveals that the agency has taken a hands-off approach when it comes to the safety of many additives already in our food. Self-regulation of food additives. Under current regulations,...

Hundreds of ingredients in U.S. foods are potentially unsafe

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Investigate Midwest

The Packers and Stockyard Division is actively investigating Tyson Foods, one of the largest meat companies in the nation, according to interviews with contract growers and a USDA employee. The PSD, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is tasked with investigating violations of the Packers and Stockyard Act...

Tyson Foods is being investigated by the USDA

A new study has introduced a technique using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to detect low levels of pesticide residues on food, suggesting that washing alone might be insufficient to remove pesticides, and peeling may be necessary. Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can...

Concerning Findings: New Research Reveals That Washing Your Fruit Doesn’t Remove All Pesticides

Read this the next time you want to feed your dog people food. As a dog lover, you want to ensure that your pup lives the longest and healthiest life possible. Eating the same dry kibble every day can make life pretty mundane for any living being. Still, it can be challenging to filter through the social media advice, ad messaging and endless claims by supposed experts. So what is the truth about canine nutrition?

The 10 Best and Worst Foods for Dogs, According to a Vet

"The analysis of what has gone into these rule changes is nothing short of tremendous," says Zach Ducheneaux, FSA administrator. "Our team has poured over hundreds of thousands of loans in our portfolio and really identified some things that FSA can, should, and with this rule, will be doing better to support our producers and their economic viability in the countryside."

The 3 Biggest Updates to USDA's Farm Loan Programs You Need to Know

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According to the USDA’s Crop Progress report released August 5, 81% of Illinois’ corn and 75% of the state's soybeans were rated Good to Excellent as August began. Plus, progress is ahead. Here, two agronomists take a closer look at the numbers, disease control, and outlook. Corn condition...

What’s going on with Illinois’ corn and soybeans?

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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WHYI Y100

Officials are urging customers to avoid consuming this product at all costs!

Meat Recalled Across Florida Could Contain 'Foreign' Metal Wire

Cooking With Maryann

Made famous in 2000 by former First Lady Laura Bush, these cowboy cookies are an updated twist on a traditional oatmeal cookie, trading raisins for chocolate chips, pecans, and shredded coconut. (We've swapped out the shortening as well!) To take it a step further, you can also toast the coconut and pecans for enhanced nuttiness. Here's what you'll need for about 18 cookies:

Cowboy Cookies

Calysta, a biotechnology company based in San Mateo, California, U.S., has sent its first shipment of FeedKind Pet protein, a non-GMO protein with no animal or plant ingredients used in its production, to its warehouse in Poland. FeedKind Pet is now available to pet food manufacturers across Europe, where it can be used in dry kibble, tinned food or treats.

Fermented protein FeedKind now available to European pet food manufacturers

Recycling food scraps back into food you can eat sounds disgusting at first. But I’m sure everyone hearing about Japan’s way of tackling waste would want to know how the process works and how the resulting food tastes. It turns out the process is not disgusting at all once you get to learn about it. It’s ingenious, and everyone should be doing it. Spoiler alert: people don’t aren’t being fed the liquid mass that results from fermenting food scraps with this technology. Instead, pigs get the liquid ecofeed, and then people ultimately eat the pigs.
The technology aims to fix two...

Japan is turning uneaten food scraps back into edible food

Last fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and our. regulatory health partners at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the. North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, the Maryland Department of. Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture initiated an investigation of apple. cinnamon fruit...

FDA Issues Warning to Austrofood Over Contaminated Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Before we get into the benefits of feeding a limited-ingredient diet to your dog, we think it would be helpful to give some context about what exactly limited-ingredient dog food is and what it isn’t. Since there isn’t a defined maximum number of ingredients allowed in limited-ingredient diets, you...

Best Limited Ingredient Dog Foods

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the deadline for comments on a proposed rule that would prevent poultry producers from selling chicken and turkey contaminated with high levels of certain types of Salmonella. Nov. 7 is the new deadline for comments on the proposed rule...

The deadline for comments on the Salmonella in poultry rule has been extended to Nov. 7

Today the USDA released the 21st Crop Progress report of the 2024 growing season. As of Aug. 18, 97% of the 2024 corn crop in the top 18 corn-growing states had reached the silk growth stage, USDA says. This was up from 94% the week prior but slightly behind the five-year average of 98%.

USDA: 5% of corn crop mature

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In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

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Rootbound Homestead

"Would you like extra bugs with that?" Filling up on insects is becoming more and more popular among influencers, celebrities, and international leaders. Why? That's a great question.

Bugs Are The Food Of The Future: Scientists Looking For Sustainable Food Sources Will Be Pushing It

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Organic food labels: What does the USDA classify as “organic?”

Do you wonder if it's worth paying more for organic foods when you grocery shop? Asking this question elicits various responses, from your jaded Uncle Stan’s...

Organic food labels: What does the USDA classify as “organic?”

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