recalls
Well, %#$% there is
listeria in the Eggo Waffles. A sample of buttermilk Eggo waffles tested positive for listeria, says the Georgia Department of Agriculture. The product wasn't shipped to the marketplace, but they're recalling a few batches that did — just in case.
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kellogg
Supposedly, Kellogg's
"brand reputation" is in the gutter after canning Phelps over the pot photo, slipping from #9 to #83 in a list of 5,600 companies. We'd believe it more if this "reputation index" chart from Vanno, a brand index company, didn't look like someone was given PowerPoint and 3 minutes and told to produce some convincing evidence for a press release.
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outbreaks
The FDA still hasn't tracked down all that yummy salmonella-contaminated
peanut butter, and until they do, they want consumers to stop eating all "commercially-prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter." No, this doesn't mean the jar of Skippy on your shelf, but it does seem to cover cookies, cakes, and ice cream; pretty much any shrink-wrapped peanut butter snack.
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warnings
Can't make it to your local prison, hospital, or school cafeteria to get in on this year's
peanut butter salmonella craze? Kellogg may have you covered at the nearest snack vending machine. The company has announced that
it doesn't want anyone eating its Keebler and Austin brand peanut butter crackers right now while it investigates whether they're action packed with salmonella stowaways.
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grocery shrink ray
Kellogg has confirmed that the much-feared grocery shrink ray has now focused its malevolent beam on Apple Jacks, Cocoa Krispies, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks. Boxes were shrunk by an average of 2.4 ounces.
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discontinued
The
Wall Street Journal says that Hydrox
cookies (similar, but apparently superior in some way to Nabisco's OREO cookies) have been discontinued by Kellogg, much to the dismay of Hydrox loyalists.
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food
Food marketing is largely made up of lies, but everyone already knows that. The CSPI, however, likes to find foods that are especially fraudulent in their marketing claims. These made us laugh for some reason, so we thought we'd share them with you.
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awards
The Consumer's International
2007 International Bad Product Awards are here, folks. Let's have a big round of applause for:
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jungle moments
U.S. companies are developing new safety measures in response to the continued rumbling of the Chinese Poison Train. The measures, along with renewed federal interest in food safety, suggest that we may be in the midst of a food safety revolution similar to the one that reformed the meatpacking industry after the publication of Upton Sinclaire's "The Jungle."
For the companies, the problem is two-fold: figuring out exactly what to test for and maintaining control over their network of suppliers, even as they turn to China for vast quantities of imports at lower prices.
Three companies are trying three different strategies to cope with the uncertain quality of China's exports:
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obesity epidemic
Kellogg announced today that it would phase out advertising to children under 12 unless the food met nutritional guidelines for sugar, calories and fat, reports the New York Times.
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kellogg
Consumerist: "Kellogg's Cereal USA museum closed down."
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specious
specious
nutrition
If you mourned the closing of Mother's Cookies last October, new owner Kellogg has announced that the cookies are back on store shelves starting today.
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