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Is takeout food safe during COVID-19?

by Katherine Wiles
Apr 2, 2020
As more states issue restrictions on restaurants, here’s how to support local businesses while keeping you, your family and the restaurant workers safe and healthy during COVID-19.
An employee at a San Francisco restaurant hands a takeout order to a customer through a window on April 1.
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Why is more plastic showing up in processed foods?

by Renata Sago
Jun 18, 2019
In the past two weeks alone, polymers have shown up in branded pasta sauces and chicken products.
There's been an uptick in the plastic contaminating processed foods recently.
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China's professional shoppers

by Jennifer Pak
Apr 4, 2019
They're making a living ... undercover.
People walk between buildings at a shopping mall in Beijing on October 18, 2018.
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Foreign infant milk formula still highly coveted in China 10 years after the melamine scandal

by Jennifer Pak
Oct 24, 2018
Eight of the top 10 baby food brands in China are foreign.
The e-commerce platform JD.com is one of the most popular ways to buy foreign infant milk formula.
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Foreign infant milk formula still highly coveted in China 10 years after the melamine scandal

by Jennifer Pak
Oct 24, 2018
Eight of the top 10 baby food brands in China are foreign.
The e-commerce platform JD.com is one of the most popular ways to buy foreign infant milk formula.
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Flour recall teaches us not to eat raw cookie dough

by Annie Baxter
Jul 26, 2016
General Mills expands a recall of flour products tied to E.coli outbreak.
General Mills is expanding its flour recall after more cases of E.coli were reported in the Midwest.  
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What happened to Chipotle's unique selling proposition?

by Annie Baxter
Mar 17, 2016
Chipotle's trying to deliver on its "fresh" brand while improving food safety.
Chipotle faces brand issues after their fresh and healthy image was tarnished by virus outbreaks. 
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Hey, lunch at Chipotle? Not today.

by Annie Baxter
Feb 8, 2016
After illness outbreaks, Chipotle closes for lunch to review food-safety protocols with employees.
A sign showing a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Boston, Massachusetts, which closed on December 8, 2015 after 80 students at Boston College had gotten sick from eating at the fast food chain. On Monday, February 8, 2016, Chipotle will close for lunch to review food-safety protocols with employees.
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Where's the beef? (Raised, slaughtered and processed?)

by Dan Weissmann
Nov 19, 2013
Meatpackers and ranchers are fighting each other over new labeling rules.
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My milk has expired. Can I drink it?

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 18, 2013
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Harvard researchers have released a study that says Americans waste food because of confusion over expiration dates.
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