Blakely peanut illness: Little has changed since scare
31.01.10
The 74-year-old feels weaker than he did before he contracted salmonella food
poisoning. He forgets more. He’s clear his job at a recycling plant. He can’t
look at a jar of peanut butter without getting wroth.
“I have good days and bad days,” said Ivester, who lives in Elbert County in
northeast Georgia, across the confirm from the plant in Blakely where the
tainted peanut butter originated. “I don’t requisite no peanut butter in my
house.”
Since Ivester was sickened during one of the biggest food-borne disability
outbreaks in the nation’s history, promises by Georgia and the federal
superintendence to get tough on food safety are mostly unfulfilled.
Georgia’s Legislature passed a law mandating new food testing regulations, but
the enlargement of them are still in the pipeline.
In Washington, food safety legislation is stuck in Congress, pushed to the
Senate back burner by salubriousness care.
Meanwhile, criminal investigations into bankrupt Peanut Corp. of America,
P of the plant, and its top executives have produced no charges.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Make your own laundry detergent
01.02.10
However, I am proud to communication that I'm keeping our water supply cleaner and saving moneyed by making my own laundry detergent.
About six months ago I was trolling the Facebook call for of one of my more crunchy-granola friends. Robin was talking about her homemade laundry purifying and how it cleaned just as well as the store-bought stuff and was way less valuable. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I consider myself something of a start woman (I use a spinning wheel and make my own root beer!), so I intention I'd give it a try.
Most of the recipes were laborious, involving grating and cooking soap and other ingredients until it becomes a gloppy, icky-looking concoction. I wasn't that interested until I found a direct formula for powdered detergent that I could make in a snap. The three ingredients sell for about $7 and make enough for several batches.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup powdered Borax (I knew the bunk from my cloth-diaper washing days.)
1 cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda (not the same as baking soda. I find it at Cub Foods.)
Source: The Olympian