China has had several food safety scares in recent years, with contaimants found in ingestible products such as toothpaste and petfood.  But the crisis going on now strikes a deep chord with parents both in and out of China:  as of today, four children have died from baby food contaminated with melamine, and over 6,000 have been sickened.  Over 150 babies are hospitalized with acute kidney failure.

After strawberries and peaches, the fruit -- yes, fruit -- that most defines the summer growing season is the tomato. What's summer without fat slices of fresh tomatoes? Well, let's see, we just might be looking at it. Or NOT.

I'm a little troubled by the recent search results provided to me by Google. I don't think this has anything to do with their page ranking issues but who knows...

Would it surprise you to know this: "Generally, neither the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nor USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has explicit statutory authority to order a recall of adulterated foods, to require a company to notify them when it has distributed such foods, or to impose penalties if recall requirements are violated."