Kellogg Cereal Recall Highlights a New Concern: Chemicals Leaching from Food Packaging

[babsbunny]

Kellogg Cereal Recall Highlights a New Concern: Chemicals Leaching from Food Packaging

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/41510

From: Dan Shapley, The Daily Green, Organic Consumers Association, More from this Affiliate
Published July 6, 2010 09:06 AM

Kellogg is recalling as many as 28 million boxes of cereal because a chemical is leaching from the food packaging into the cereal. The Food and Drug Administration states the reason for the recall as "uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell coming from the liner in the package." Other sources call it a wax-like substance, and parents are being warned that it may cause diarrhea or vomiting, particularly in sensitive children (the recalled cereals — Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Fruit Loops and Honey Smacks — are sugary staples of the Kellogg line, marketed with cartoon characters primarily at children).

[DainBramaged]

1. (sigh) our food is not safe. We are doomed.

I have become so sensitive to so many foods (especially processed) and so wary I am seriously thinking about eating only rice and tuna but then I may start glowing from the mercury and get another eye from the pesticides in the rice.


We can't win we are doomed.

[niyad]

2. grow as much as you can on your own, get to know your local farmers, ranchers, as well.

[DainBramaged]

5. I live in an apartment, I am doomed.........

:cry:

[niyad]

6. depends on how much sunlight you get--lettuce, herbs, etc., can be grown indoors

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I live in an apartment too

I go to my local farmer's market. I get my veggies and fruit there... and at times even chicken and eggs.

Oh and the rice too, fair trade, from Asia, types of rice that you cannot get at the store.

I have food allergies too... I cannot eat wheat any more, gluten allergy. Since we started eating the organic, we both feel better.

[NeedleCast]

9. DOOMED!

Lulz.

[DainBramaged]

14. Doomed I tells ya doomed

Me Lucky Charms is poisoned.

[niyad]

3. heard about this weeks ago--is this one a new thing?

[happy_liberal]

4. If only we had a governmental organization that protected our food and drug supply...

sadly, it's not safe to eat anymore.

[niyad]

7. sad, but so very true.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Yeah. And we could call it the "US Food and Drug....." mm, help me out here...

:banghead:

[jp11]

11. I'm a GM guy.

[madrchsod]

12. a rough guess would be around 7 million feet of waxed paper.

somewhere in the process a certain percentage became contaminated. what that percentage is has never been reported.

if it does`t pass your personal smell test do`t eat it.

[pansypoo53219]

13. yeah, i gotta call nabisco.

my mom opened my fig newtons, and a few days later i have some and i taste plastic. and i do not like the new package.