HVP Salmonella recall is expanding rapidly -- thousands of products could be affected

Where's the FDA in all this? Trying to compete with the pharmaceutical companies for new talent. If you were a new student coming out of college or grad school w/ $40,000 (or more) in student loans, would you work for the FDA or $50,000/ year or Pfizer for $100,000. You do the math.

The FDA is severely under-staffed, but trust me they are doing a whole lot better under this administration than the previous pro-business/ less regulation attitude of the last one. And that is not a political dig, just a fact. Overall political philosophy affects policy and the capacity to enforce the regulations on the books, and create new ones that reflect the changes of the time.

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Please... don't hesitate to tell us exactly what kind of "test" you think they should perform on every last bit of food they produce? Be specific, please.

And just how are these tainted products destroyed? That could open a whole other can of worms! I hope they are burned and not buried in the ground.... or....thrown into rivers, etc.! Think about it! All that nastiness dumped into areas where we possibly use the water for drinking, the ground for growing food products, raising animals.

No, they don't have to test anything, they have us, we're their testers. It cuts down on man power. We buy the product, if we get sick, we file a lawsuit against the product. Then they get the lot number to do a recall. It's like everything else not being tested. The U.S. has fallen through the cracks. Nothing matters about the welfare of the American people anymore!

Hawaiian Kettle Potato Chip, HUH!!! LOL!!!
How can they call this Hawaiian Chips when it's mad and manufactured in Las Vegas????

Las Vegas should be sued for defaming Hawaii on this ludicrous chips. This chip company should've named their chip to Bunny Ranch chips.

To answer your question, the FDA is only applicable if the product was sold between states. I.E. if the food is made in Hawaii, and sold in Hawaii, then it is up to local and state health departments to test them. Not really sure on the details in this case because I live in a foreign country and haven't had the chance to review the details, but that could account for some of the error. Also, the purview of each Agency changes dramatically as ingredients are changed. For example, a pizza containing pepperoni (or any other type of meat for that matter) falls under the jurisdiction of the USDA because meat is an agricultural product. For more information I suggest reading Through the Bureaucratic Jungle; a Guide for the Confused Consumer
Magazine article by Dori Stehlin; FDA Consumer, Vol. 20, July-August 1986. Hope this helps.

Uhh.... no offense, but they named five items and the article says "typically contains." I don't automatically translate that into a panic level of insanity.

Please share with us... where DO you get your information from, some guy that you met on a bus? MSG doesn't make you eat more. You may want to take a second and actually look it up someplace that isn't a "the sky is falling" website. Try wikipedia for convenience.

You need to do some basic research. MSG is a plant derivitive from seaweed. It is a flavor enhancer just as salt is. It is not a chemical in any form. It is as natural as rain. Please learn about something b4 you spout trivial innacurate information. people are overweight because they cannot control themselves and exercise little. if the person has a slower metabolism and they now it then they need to adjust thoer food intake accordingly, and stop trying to blame others for thier fat problems.

Hey, Mark,

Botulism is natural, too, but I don't want it in my food.

to Mark...Scientific studies prove it is true. Like I said Lots of scientific testing has been done to prove that MSG increases appetite, and promotes obesity. Check AOL search..Scientific testing on MSG inducing increased appetite. Lots of sources of testing. And it also is a deterent to exercise. It made the test animals more sedentary too which contributed to their weight gain.They add it food to increase sales. Odd, can people be allergic to the rain? I have heard that people can be allergic to MSG. hmmm... Natural doesn't mean good for you.

Actually, in my Biology of the Brain class (and other classes) they classified MSG as a "excita-something" -- firstly, MSG tastes like a mild salt that lasts only a split second, so to get a REALLY salty flavor one can use a lot of it (Chinese food, chips, dips, etc.). Then it heads strait to your sensory receptors in the pleasure center of the brain and says "Wow that was good!" So the actual flavor is minimal and simply "salt" but the chemical reaction in the brain makes a bunch of synapses in the pleasure centers fire off. This can increase cravings for said food so you can keep getting that pleasure sensation -- OR in the case of some folk with particular brain-chemical issues, it can cause other problems. For example some folks complain they get headaches after eating food with a lot of MSG, and I'd look to people with ADHD and other brain chemistry issues for other reactions. I used to live in NYC and the empty BARRELS of MSG outside certain "Chinese food" restaurants made it pretty plain that there was a problem. It's derived from plants--but so is cocaine, and they're not incredibly dissimilar in how they're made either. Are they chemicals too? Yep. Even if plant-derived. Just because it's not synthesized in a lab doesn't make it safe.

If you are female and old you should have spent just a little more of your time learning to spell.