http://nutritionwonderland.com An in-depth guide to the world of nutrition Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:58:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://nutritionwonderland.com/wp-content/themes/nw_theme/images/NW_Logo_v2.0_144x56px.jpghttp://nutritionwonderland.com400156Nutrition Wonderland is an in-depth guide to the world of nutrition. http://nutritionwonderland.com/2010/02/gmos-does-regulation-ensure-safety/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2010/02/gmos-does-regulation-ensure-safety/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:21:59 +0000 Christie Wilcox http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=1276 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2010/02/gmos-does-regulation-ensure-safety/feed/ 6 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/12/the-truth-about-organic-farming/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/12/the-truth-about-organic-farming/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:18:14 +0000 Christie Wilcox http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=1191 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/12/the-truth-about-organic-farming/feed/ 10 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/can-biodiversity-and-agriculture-coexist-how-supermetrics-made-wildlife-enemy-1-on-the-farm-day-4/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/can-biodiversity-and-agriculture-coexist-how-supermetrics-made-wildlife-enemy-1-on-the-farm-day-4/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:19:05 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=1095 Homo sapien. As super hunters, we first decimated the populations of any large animals we found in Africa. It's from that background we begin to examine a tough question – can biodiversity exist in a world of monocrop staples like corn and rice, amphibian crushing pesticides, and food safety protocols that explicitly make farmers keep sterile fields free of small animals? The answers are varied from those we have spoken to on the Nutrition Wonderland Tour of America.]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/can-biodiversity-and-agriculture-coexist-how-supermetrics-made-wildlife-enemy-1-on-the-farm-day-4/feed/ 0 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/nutrition-wonderlands-tour-of-america-begins-in-california/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/nutrition-wonderlands-tour-of-america-begins-in-california/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:04:57 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=1051 overview of our mission on this tour. See our stops in the interactive map after the jump...]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/09/nutrition-wonderlands-tour-of-america-begins-in-california/feed/ 4 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/jbs-swift-beef-recalls-beef-ecoli-0157h7-outbreak-13-states/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/jbs-swift-beef-recalls-beef-ecoli-0157h7-outbreak-13-states/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:36:47 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=714 Nestle E.coli 0157:H7 outbreak in cookie dough. The USDA has classified the outbreak as a 'Class I Recall' which is the highest level of severity their FSIS division applies to any recall. Follow the read link to get the whole story (thanks to JC Westbrook of Flickr for the nice shot).]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/jbs-swift-beef-recalls-beef-ecoli-0157h7-outbreak-13-states/feed/ 0 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/food-safety-enhancement-act-hr-2749/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/food-safety-enhancement-act-hr-2749/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:38:46 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=676 Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749) moved out of subcommittee for a vote in the US House. UPDATE: It has now formally also moved out of committee for a real vote on the House floor.]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/food-safety-enhancement-act-hr-2749/feed/ 14 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/04/food-safety-policy-hr-875-hr-759/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/04/food-safety-policy-hr-875-hr-759/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:00:08 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=483 pistachios and peanut butter in the US, there has been a large response from the public to better safeguard the food supply. Here we review some of the options currently being discussed against the wisdom of some leading food safety professionals.]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/04/food-safety-policy-hr-875-hr-759/feed/ 4 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/03/food-safety-recent-history/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/03/food-safety-recent-history/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:01:12 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=399 Peanut Corporation of America had a salmonella outbreak in one of their factories, contaminating the majority of peanut-butter containing products in the United States. Here, we review the recent history of food borne illnesses and how they relate to the consolidation of the food industry.]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/03/food-safety-recent-history/feed/ 4 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2008/12/organic-fish/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2008/12/organic-fish/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:49:14 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=61 USDA announced their first organic guidelines for fish. The new guidelines uphold some of the traditional mainstays of organic agriculture, like banning the use of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and GMO feed in some instances while weakening other provisions at the same time.

Most notable in the new guidelines is the inclusion of a loophole that allows aquaculture farms to obtain up to 25% of their feed from unregulated wild seafood stock (see the NOSB draft literature). The loophole does specify that organic producers use 'sustainable' wild seafood as the feed for their fish stocks but does not go so far as to require 100% organic feed. This is the first time ANY livestock producer (NOTE: the USDA classifies fisheries as 'livestock') has been allowed to include any non-organic feed into their own animal's feed.]]> http://nutritionwonderland.com/2008/12/organic-fish/feed/ 6