#food-industry-misleading

#food-industry-misleading

Usually an item like this is fairly expensive. That has been my experience with store-bought muffins. They either dry out or can get moldy.

"Quite simply, we didn't think that the regulations hit the mark in really addressing the risk with a reasonable cost or burden," says Fulton, noting concerns about duplication with existing provincial systems, such as livestock inspection in Western Canada.

"So, hedge your bets," wrote Gardner in an email to KQED. "Eat foods, not protein supplements. What have you got to lose - and what do you have to gain?"

The USDA has issued a health alert for dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets sold at Walmart, as certain packages may contain lead. Lead is especially harmful to pregnant women, infants and young children.

When you purchase the top-selling creatine gummies on Amazon, you expect to get what you pay for. But a recent study found that four out of six popular brands contained virtually no creatine at all. In the case of the worst offender, customers would need to consume 2,000 gummies to get the advertised 5-gram dose. Still, combined these products sell over 50,000 units monthly and boast 4.4+ star ratings.

The EPA has put cancer warnings on only 1.4% of pesticide labels for products that contain an active ingredient that the agency itself has designated 'probable' or 'likely' to cause cancer.

In 2018, an Aldi customer bought frozen Kirkwood-brand turkey burgers from a Pittsburgh store and cooked them according to the directions on the back of the package. After placing the frozen patty in a skillet of oil, the burger exploded, causing second-degree burns. In early 2019, the customer filed a lawsuit against the grocery chain for about $35,000.

Walmart's slogan may be "Save Money, Live Better," but as a series of social media posts have revealed, the corporation has been overcharging shoppers for meat via rampant mislabelling. Customers have discovered that the weights listed on some of Walmart's meat packages are incorrect, and these weight discrepancies could indicate fraudulent overpricing and deceptive tactics to get customers to pay more for less food.

For someone aiming to end the global livestock industry, Bruce Friedrich begins his new book called Meat in disarming fashion: I'm not here to tell anyone what to eat. You won't find vegetarian or vegan recipes in this book, and you won't find a single sentence attempting to convince you to eat differently. This book isn't about policing your plate.

"Ironically, many if not most of these 'sustainability' projects remain disassociated from companies' core procurement strategies, meaning the coffee produced from these projects is not necessarily bought by the companies involved, or only in minimal quantities," the paper states. "And for the coffee that is purchased, prices do not factor into the project design, despite the fact that price is the single variable impacting farmer income that is in the direct control of companies."

Getty Images Another recall notice has been issued in the UK for baby formula over potential contamination, with food safety experts asking parents to check batches they have at home.

No food recall is good news, but the last news you want to hear is that food in your home may have been exposed to bird and rodent droppings. Unfortunately, that's exactly the case for a major new recall just issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which says thousands of products, ranging beyond food into cosmetic products and medical devices, may have been exposed to animal waste.

The law was part of a state senate bill that called for the amendment of the California Retail Food Code. The bill was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2025 and it comes into effect this July. That means from this summer forward, Californians can expect to see milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, sesame, and soybeans listed as an ingredient on major restaurant menus.