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Peanut Butter Worth Praising: MaraNatha

Heather Dunham — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:43:51 +0000

With all the bad news lately about salmonella-tainted peanut butter in processed food products, isn’t it high time we had a peanut butter story we could feel good about?

MaraNatha Nut Butters offers a wide variety of natural and organic nut butters which are super-yummy. And they are not involved in the current PCA recall.

Every day, the news is just getting worse and worse. More and more products, including natural and organic ones, are being recalled in the US and Canada. Our faith in our entire food supply system is being tested.

But there is some good news. Not all food manufacturers use peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America. And while we certainly should not become complacent, there is also no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater… or, in this case, with the peanut butter.

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Feds Find Roaches and Mold in Peanut Butter Recall Plant

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:23:22 +0000

As if salmonella wasn’t enough to cause the massive peanut butter recall, federal inspectors have found mold, cockroaches, and a leaky roof at the Blakely, Georgia plant owned by Peanut Corp. of America (PCA).

The peanut butter recall has been expanded to include all products PCA products from 2007 on. Over 400 products have been recalled including ice cream, Asian sauces, and dog biscuits. Even a few organic products are on the recall list.

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Another Urgent Health Alert: Toss The Keebler Cookies

Jessica Gottlieb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:28 +0000

Five adults have died with salmonella infection and Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) may be the cause of the outbreak.

Kudos to Kellogs for preemptively pulling their cookies from the shelves. Yeah, I said that, Kellogs, pimpmaster of all things packaged, high fructose, genetically modified, partially hydrogenated, frankenfood. Yeah, they’re doing the right thing.

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Design Competition for Greener Concrete

Philip Proefrock — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:33:18 +0000

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Portland Cement Association (PCA) have announced their “Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World” student design competition.

This is the third year for the competition. The concrete industry is looking for opportunities to boost the perception of concrete as a green material, since the mining, processing and transportation of concrete is responsible for 8% of all carbon dioxide produced by human activity.

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