Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’

All throughout the history of  mankind, handmade soap are among the most essential body cleaning items. Ranging from royalty to the lower social classes, people used natural soaps to keep their body well-cleaned at all times, with specific herbs and plants used as well to cure skin ailments. Over time, various cultures have developed their own methods of making soap bars, liquids and gels from natural ingredients. With the geographical barriers knock downed in the course of centuries, many introductions have been made into soap making, to include use of milk from animals to produce cow and goat milk soap products.
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Anyone who followed the fracas over the food industry’s now abandoned “Smart Choices” label — the “healthy food” label that somehow allowed products like Froot Loops to qualify — should have realized that Big Food can’t resist the temptation to stretch the truth when it comes to front-of-package labeling. But a new study released today by the California-based Prevention Institute should represent the final nail in the coffin of the corpse that is food industry self-regulation.

The “Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children’s Food” [PDF] study examined over 50 products that food companies advertise as their healthiest for children — “Smart Choices” was but one front-of-package label of many others still in use. In the spirit of fairness, the study authors didn’t go looking for crap food: they selected products from an industry-created list that was part of its own “Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative,” which selects products the industry has itself determined to meet good nutritional standards. From that list, the study authors then selected products with some type of “healthier for you” front-of-package labels and analyzed them using nutritional standards based on the National Academy of Science’s 2005 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”

The researchers concluded that in fact, 84 percent of those products did not meet these basic nutritional standards.

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Substance in Package Liners Produces Wax-Like Taste and Smell:

The Kellogg Co. has issued a recall of 28 million boxes of some of its most popular cereals because of an “uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell” coming from packaging.

The recall includes Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, and Honey Smacks that have been sold around the country, the company says.

Kellogg, based in Battle Creek, Mich., says it issued the recall in consultation with the FDA.

“We have identified a substance in the package liners that can produce an uncharacteristic waxy-like off taste and smell,” spokeswoman J. Adaire Putnam tells WebMD in an email. “Consumers report a variety of tastes and smells, including those that are stale, metal, and soap-like.” Read the rest of this entry »