Hacker News with Generative AI: Food Safety

Costco’s butter recall, explained (forbes.com)
Would you toss your butter in the trash if the label left out one critical detail? For some Costco shoppers, the answer is yes, according to the latest FDA guidance.

Food Safety, Consumer News, Costco, Product Recalls

59 points by michaelbarton 6 days ago | 251 comments

Solanine (wikipedia.org)
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family within the genus Solanum, such as the potato (Solanum tuberosum), the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), and the eggplant (Solanum melongena). It can occur naturally in any part of the plant, including the leaves, fruit, and tubers. Solanine has pesticidal properties, and it is one of the plant's natural defenses.

Botany, Chemistry, Food Safety

10 points by teleforce 9 days ago | 2 comments

Fired Disney employee hacked menu to falsely claim foods did not contain peanuts (nbcnews.com)
A disgruntled former Disney employee is being accused of hacking into menu-creating software used by the company's restaurants to falsely indicate that certain food items did not contain peanuts.

Cybersecurity, Food Safety, Disney, Employee Misconduct

8 points by ceejayoz 22 days ago | 0 comments

Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid (theatlantic.com)
It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.

Cooking, Food Safety, Health, Chemicals

475 points by Jimmc414 22 days ago | 844 comments

Factory farms can contaminate onions with dangerous pathogens like E. coli (ewg.org)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration report that onions are the likely source of the McDonald’s E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened dozens more.

Food Safety, E. coli, Outbreaks, Agriculture

14 points by stareatgoats 23 days ago | 4 comments

Pizza place accidentally spiked dough with THC, sickening dozens (arstechnica.com)
Dozens of people in Wisconsin have been sickened and at least five needed emergency medical services after inadvertently eating pizza tainted with Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive compound in cannabis, officials of Public Health Madison & Dane County reported late Friday.

Food Safety, Cannabis, Wisconsin, Health, Accidents

4 points by nobody9999 24 days ago | 0 comments

E. coli cases linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders rises to 75 (cnn.com)

Food Safety, E. coli, McDonald's, Fast Food

5 points by amichail 27 days ago | 0 comments

1 Dead from E.Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders (cnn.com)

Food Safety, Fast Food, Health, Outbreak

18 points by jonwachob91 30 days ago | 10 comments

E. Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders (cdc.gov)
CDC, FDA, USDA FSIS, and public health officials in multiple states are investigating an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections. Most people in this outbreak are reporting eating the Quarter Pounder hamburger at McDonald’s before becoming sick. It is not yet known which specific food ingredient is contaminated.

Food Safety, E. coli, McDonald's, Public Health

28 points by amichail 30 days ago | 8 comments

Toxic Compounds Derived from the Maillard Reaction in Thermal Food Processing (sciencedirect.com)
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs), heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), acrylamide (AA), 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are toxic substances that are produced in certain foods during thermal processing by using common high-temperature unit operations such as frying, baking, roasting, grill cooking, extrusion, among others.

Food Science, Chemistry, Health, Food Safety, Nutrition

7 points by rntn 34 days ago | 0 comments

Newsom signs bill to expel six food dyes from California public schools (latimes.com)
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, M&Ms and other items made with certain synthetic food dyes will be expelled from California public schools, charter schools and state special schools under a bill signed into law Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Food Policy, California Politics, Education, Health, Food Safety

5 points by PaulHoule 43 days ago | 1 comments

Cybersecurity is like food safety: digital HACCP (berthub.eu)
There are lots of calls to invest in improving cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity, Food Safety, Digital Security

4 points by fanf2 49 days ago | 0 comments

Cooking items in your home are linked to cancer-causing chemicals (pennlive.com)
A new study found that black-colored plastic kitchen utensils and takeout containers, among other items, may contain cancer-causing chemicals.

Health, Science, Food Safety, Cancer

46 points by Jimmc414 49 days ago | 93 comments

10th person dead in Listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head meats (arstechnica.com)
A 10th person has died in the nationwide Listeria outbreak connected to Boar's Head deli meats, which otherwise appears to be slowing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Food Safety, Outbreaks, Health, Public Health

23 points by okasaki 55 days ago | 1 comments

1000s of Toxins from food packaging found in humans – research (theguardian.com)
More than 3,600 chemicals approved for food contact in packaging, kitchenware or food processing equipment have been found in humans, new peer-reviewed research has found, highlighting a little-regulated exposure risk to toxic substances.

Food Safety, Chemicals, Health, Research

37 points by prmph 55 days ago | 11 comments

Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals (nature.com)
Humans are known to be exposed to FCCs via foods, but the full extent of human exposure to all FCCs is unknown.

Science, Food Safety, Chemicals, Health

19 points by pilingual 65 days ago | 1 comments

Boar's Head closing Virginia plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak (apnews.com)
Boar’s Head said Friday it’s closing the Virginia plant tied to a deadly listeria outbreak.

Food Safety, Listeria Outbreak, Virginia, Food Industry, Product Recall

12 points by JumpCrisscross 69 days ago | 6 comments

Could Listeria Take Down the 100-Year Boar's Head Empire? (nymag.com)

Food Safety, Food Industry, Listeria, Boar's Head

6 points by howard941 78 days ago | 0 comments

Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying (arstechnica.com)

Food Safety, Food Industry, Health, Investigations

123 points by speckx 83 days ago | 121 comments

Bugs, mold, mildew found in Boar's Head plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak (cbsnews.com)