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May 14 Is your food safe?It was only a matter of time before we had to face the problem of food tainted with some substance. We've gone from purchasing food that is grown and produced locally to having absolutely no idea where the ingredients for our food have originated. A few years ago, the company I work with was producing a ginseng product and importing ginseng from another country. Since they test every batch of ingredients, they came across fungicide. They sent that batch back, but every batch after that ,even from other suppliers, was contaminated. Finally they went to the country to see what was going on. There had been a very damp, rainy season and when the ginseng was being stored it was getting moldy, so the warehouses sprayed fungicide. That year, this company stopped making products containing ginseng until they could find an uncontaminated source. Other companies did use this ginseng, marketing to consumers who had no idea what they were getting. My point? Buy from the most reputable company you can. Know where their ingredients come from. The less processed a food is, the less ingredients you have to worry about. Buy locally when possible. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://biggreenplanet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2750EECCE3D2D2F6!208.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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