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Uh Oh! Food Fraud On the Rise, Especially For Olive Oil, Milk, Coffee, and Honey
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Can't a girl just get honey when she buys honey? Apparently not. Food fraud ("the adulteration, dilution or mislabeling of goods" as defined by the FDA) is on the rise, with olive oil, milk, saffron, honey and coffee topping the list of food items most likely to have fudged ingredients or sourcing information.
The most recent study on food fraud from the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention reports that in addition to the foods listed above, the other foods most likely to have fraudulent ingredients or elements include fish, tea, maple syrup, turmeric, black pepper and chili pepper.
What does it mean to be a fraudulent food? It means that the food in question has fillers or other substances in it other than what it was specified on the label. For example, an expensive spice might have less-expensive fillers added to it; extra virgin olive oil could be diluted with cheaper vegetable oils. And that pomegranate juice? Not 100% pomegranate, but more likely a mix of "grape skins and grape and pear juices," according to Eatocracy, who reported on the study. They offer their own tips to combat food fraud, which are worth checking out.
Read More: Faux pas! Food fraud on the rise | Eatocracy
In general, the best way to combat food fraud is to know your food source and supplier, if not for everything then especially for the high-target foods.
What do you think about this? Will it change how you shop for olive oil and honey? For spices and tea?
Related: The Great Olive Oil Scam. Don't Be Duped.
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Interesting. In Europe you get mostly lied about the origin (Italian olive oil is mostly from Spain or North Africa, but can be labelled "Italian" if it has been bottled there). And a lot of "organic" food, especially from Italy, is not organic at all. But I'm pretty sure you couldn't dilute olive oil or honey, there are too many tests.
I learned about fraudulent honey about a year ago, first here on TK and then did some more research. Since then I buy only raw, local honey from the farmer's market in the summer or in bulk from a local beekeeper to last through the winter. It's something I should have been doing anyway, for obvious reasons, but that piece of news just kicked my butt into doing it sooner, higher costs be damned.
The photo used for this article suggests that Trader Joe's products are fraudulent. If that's not the case, I would choose a different image.
yeah why did you use trader joes products for this?
Yes, what's with the TJ's disrespect. You could have turned the bottles around so the labels weren't visible.
This is really interesting. I always read that olive oil was "better" if it had a greener tint to it...and I found out that many companies are adding food coloring to olive oils to trick people into thinking they are higher quality. AND they don't have to put it on the label.
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To my mind, it is a capital sin to buy the listed items in this articles in regular supermarkets - even at Whole Food and Trade Joe's. One should always goes to specialized stores. To those that buy those products in the supermarket, well, I don't feel sorry for them.
Lima, you forget that not everyone lives in an area where going to a specialty store is possible. And there's nothing keeping those specialty stores or small local sources from padding their products, either. Fraud is fraud, so let's not blame the victim here.
Hey all! No disrespect for TJ's. To avoid confusion, we'll swap out the image.
Lima, I think you're also forgetting that not everybody can afford the luxury of high-end grocery shopping. And I agree with ScuttledCuttle as well - who's to say that the specialty shops aren't selling the same fraudulent items?
Lima, not everyone can afford (money or time-wise) to shop at specialty stores. Let's not blame the proletariat for the sins of the capitalists. This is not about people making bad buying decisions. This is about people making bad selling decisions.
Lima, we'll all be sure to hit up our local milk specialty store. What on earth are you talking about?
I signed into TK specifically to reply to Lima and I see I am not the only one who did. To "not feel sorry" for people who buy products that are REGULATED by rules and laws to be safe and authentic is incredibly short-sighted (I'll be polite here, because I love this website and the respectful nature of the comments on it). That's all fine and well for you, who can go to the specialty store to buy all your special foods while those thoughtless people stupidly shop at their supermarket, for whatever variety of reasons, can shop at their peril.
If medicine was illegally tampered with, would you leave a comment saying people should only buy it at their local super special apothecary and you can't be bothered to feel sorry for the people who buy it at a chain pharmacy? Or would you be understanding of the fact that it is inherently wrong to mislead people and break rules that are in place for their well-being?
You're elitism and thoughtlessness really takes the cake. The cake is from the supermarket, so you know, artificial colors and such.
Must be nice to be rich enough to be able to afford the specialized stores.
Lima, I live in a town of 1,200 people. Our grocery store isn't even a supermarket.
Our count seat of around 15,000 people is a 35-mile round trip. It has two (low-end) supermarkets because this is a relatively poor and sparsely-populated area.
The nearest Trader Joe's and Whole Foods is several counties away -- a 140-mile round trip. That town location is also where the nearest good farmer's market is -- in the summer only.
I'm a foodie who'd love to shop at specialty stores. Enjoy your proximity to high-quality, expensive foodstuffs. Some of us aren't so lucky.
Indeed, when I read Lima's hopefully, Simply not well thought out post, I thought, the pele who grow organic and raise organic are the ones living in areas where chains are the rule and specialty stores are for urban landscapes.
So it seems as if the consumer is dumping on the humans who make those specialty products.
Great article on sustainable family coffee farms. Julie Craves offers a list of mostly shade growing farms that may also use agroforestry and are certainly more trustworthy than Starbucks or Nestle. (Tan box towards the end of the article lists the coffee sources).
I noticed the discussion on specialty stores. More people are trying to plant community gardens to provide FREE food to communities. Yes, I know you can't grow coffee in Minnesota or keep bees in your back yard. But with drought food is going to be more expensive everywhere, and we'd be foolish to not take advantage of the amazing number of empty lots in our towns. Raised beds can provide clean soil but soil restoration should be done if possible.
If communities did this (and if people dropped the candy bars, soda, other crap from their grocery list) we would be able to buy one or two specialty items (you can order online too, olive oil lasts a while) within your grocery budget. And by the way many supermarkets charge the same for health food items as the local market.
These are new times and we're going to have to face new challenges. I hope we do so sustainably and with the goal of making food a growing and free product for most communities.
We heard about the Olive Oil fraud on NPR and then 60 minutes did a segment on fraudulent truffles and quite frankly it makes me so mad that our food supply continues to be tampered with. On that note, I was able to pick up a bottle of California Olive Ranch Olive Oil on sale at Shop Rite and it was very good. http://www.californiaoliveranch.com/
Also, if you have a TJ Maxx or Marshalls or even Home Good in your are, they sometimes sell specialty food items that are actually high quality. I got my coconut oil there at an amazing low price!
For some reason I though there was a law against misleading products. Guess I was wrong. Somebody in my Intro to International Relations class a couple of days ago said something about states (nations), governments and people always promoting but never ensuring our human rights. And I think what that person said applies to not only human rights, but the environment and our food among other things. Too bad our planet is run by capitalist societies.
Isn't it illegal to exclude ingredients on a label? Did I miss something?
Ah, fraudulent olive oil. Now there's an old tradition.
It's a pretty common problem for olive oil. If a bottle says 'Italian olive oil,' chances are it's not from Italy, not made from olives, or both. And in some cases it can be oil that's a year old or more that's been 'cleaned' up. It's pretty big industry too. People have compared it to cocaine trafficking in terms of profits.
The fake/altered stuff is so prevalent, if you had a taste test with generally available olive oil and 100% guarantee pure olive oil, a lot of people would pick the pure stuff as the fake because the taste is so different than what they're used to.
Companies in the US can get around label laws by having misleading front labels and then putting the real deal in the fine print on the back. For instance, with pomegranate juice, it says "Pomegranate - 100% Juice." Which implies that it is 100% POMEGRANATE juice, when in fact it is only saying that the contents of the bottle are 100% juice of any kind, not pomegranate. If you read the list of ingredients you'll often find apple, pear, or grape (sometimes all three) listed long before any juice from more expensive fruit like pomegranate, cherries, or blueberries.
Honey is not regulated like other foods, hence many things can be called "honey" that did not come directly from bees.
You can call it "maple" so long as it has only a fraction of the real stuff in it (though you can't say it's 100% then). Most commercial syrups are "maple flavored," or worse yet, "table syrups" or "pancake syrups," with no maple syrup in them at all.
Olive oil has in the last year come out as being notoriously tampered with, especially "extra virgin," which is often anything but. Even experts were shocked. The book "Extra Virgin" which came out recently did some of the legwork to break this story.
Putting "milk" in the title of this article is misleading, as the adulterated milk is located outside of the US and Europe (your primary readership) - mainly, India and South America. Thankfully, the US has fairly rigorous standards for dairy production (in terms of the end product, anyway).
vingatejenta makes some very, very valid points. If you don't bring a magnifying glass and chemical dictionary with you to the grocery store you may not know what you're eating. You've GOT to read all the fine print on the back label...
Perhaps @Lima's point was more along the lines of "you get what you pay for", and that consumers should exercise responsibility with their purchasing choices. We know that free-range, organic meat costs more, and rightly so. It is perhaps naïve to expect to be able to buy mechanically pressed extra virgin olive oil, saffron, or maple syrup at rock bottom prices.


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Wanted to get other peoples opinions on communion by intinction. Does anyone else have any concerns about germs, particularly when it comes to the elderly or others with compromised immune systems?
No, communion by intinction is the most beautiful way to serve it. It shows the unity between the "body" and "blood" of Christ. Not to mention that bread and grape juice taste amazing. It's one of my favourite snacks! ... I know that's a little bit odd but I love the taste! And plus you don't touch the bread aside from the piece your rip off and you don't "double dip" your bread in the juice. So this form of communion is safe if led properly. No worries! :)
You really do have to educate the congregation, though. Our church does it about once a year, as I recall. People tend to forget in that length of time. Last time we did it, I was holding one of the cups, so I got to watch up close. A good third of the people dunked their bread right up to the second knuckle of their thumb and finger. A few of those swished it around a few times for good measure.
One person put the bread ih his mouth, then started to reach for the cup. When I gently advised him (while pulling the cup away from his grasping hands) that he was supposed to dip the bread, he nodded, took it out of his mouth and tried to dip it, saliva and all. He didn't get that far, ortunately.
This is my favorite way to take communion but I have become somewhat hesitant because of all the germ scares. However, i would notlike to drink out of the common cup. I had a discussion with an Anglican minister about just this topic. he said the common cup has been used for centuries and nothing happened. I reminded him about the plague.
I prefer Communion by Intinction!
It can be less confusing, can be faster, and I think that there is something very moving about the congregation coming forward to the Lord's Table, especially while meaningful praises are being sung.
Also there is so much less work involved in preparation and clean up.
Maybe the servers could hand out the dipped bread instead of letting each parishioners handle it. I attended a huge Anglican church downtown a while ago (during SARS), and the servers each, almost as part of the ritual, cleansed their hands in front of all with antibacterial gel.
that's been the catholic practice for centuries - one of the triggers of the protestant reformation was that the people had no access to the cup. even now, when they have access, people in most parishes don't partake.
intinction is my favourite way. i like it because people come forward, and i enjoy reflecting on the symbolism of receiving the bread and the wine together as one. it only tastes good with pasteurized rather than fermented wine, though - if it's fermented, i'd rather not "rip and dip." sourdough bread is particularly good for dipping, and the flavour of sourdough with welch's is divine.
another way to protect against the spread of germs is if the person who is serving the bread rips off the chunks and hands them to the people. this also would ensure that people are getting big enough chunks that they can dip the bread without dipping their fingers - people who only take a tiny pinch of bread are the most common digit-dippers.
Funny how intinction is considered the 'new' way in the UCC. The small individual glasses and cubes of bread method is only about 120 years old. My church only adopted 'the public hygiene method' as it is called in 1911, and the local methodists only switched when they united in 1925. It was a Presbyterian change for public health reasons. Rationality won out over tradition, to the point most forget that we used the common cup for most of our history.
It's definitly my favourite way.
The only problem I've had with it is similar to Klaatu's but it's the person who dip's the bread and then holds his mouth over the cup while puttin it into his mouth so as to avoid dribbling any of his excess on the floor.
Please, I will gladly clean the floor.
I have seen people do this when being passed hors d'oeurves with a dipping sauce. Yukkkk!
In our Circles we pass the bread and cup around for all to take. Part of our etiquette is for those who may have a 'bug", or who are concerned about a compromised immune system, will simply touch the chalice to their foreheads ratehr than drink from it. They are demed to have shared the cup just the same.
I am an intincter. Our church has two sets of chalices: fancy silver ones for the germ-o-philes and very rustic clay ones for us germ-o-phobes. One signals to the chalice servers by either eating the bread sans la vin (approach silver chalice) or retaining the bread to dip (approach clay chalic). Everyone should be happy, having either crumb free or germ free wine -- well, there is no grape juice selection, so perhaps some people will be upset. Actually, one woman brought her mother, a baptist, one Christmas eve. The mother, a tea-totaller, refused to take communion, because the cup had wine and not grape juice.
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>>What does the bread and cup represent in your religion."
Perhaps the best illustration would be from the ritual itself.
Priestess takes up the wine goblet. Priest takes up the athame.
Priest: "We acknowledge our needs and offer our appreciation for that which sustains us."
Priestess: "May we be ever mindful of the blessings of our Lord and Lady."
Priest lowers the athame into the wine briefly and withdraws.
Priest: "As male joins female for the sake of love and bounty, let the fruits of their union promote life. Let the earth be fruitful and by her wealth let us be blessed."
Priest takes the wine goblet and offers wine to the earth. He offers wine to the priestess. Starting at east he offers wine to the worshipers. The priest returns the altar with the wine goblet and drinks from the goblet.
Priest: "As I enjoy these gifts of Danu and Manannan Mac Lir, may I remember that without them I have nothing."
Priest takes up the bread and Priestess takes up the athame, touching the bread with the athame.
Priestess: "This food is the blessing of the Lord and Lady given freely to us. As freely as we have received, may we also give food for the body, mind and spirit to those who seek such of us."
Priestess takes the bread and offers some to the earth. She then offers a piece to the priest. Starting at the east she offers bread to the worshipers. The priestess returns to the altar with the bread and eats.
Priestess: "As I enjoy these gifts of Danu and Manannan Mac Lir , may I remember that without them I have nothing."
I hope that gives you some idea of the meaning for us.
>>"I find it amazing that you do this!"
I'm not sure why you would find it amazing. The ritual feast, the communal sharing of food and drink in worship, is a part of almost every religion on earth.
I'll give you a few examples, although I don't have sources ready to hand. You're making me delve back into my days of anthropology studies lol. I will get the sources if you wish though, hopefully in forms you can verify to your satisfaction.
First of all, I don't think whether it is wine or not is very significant. Many Wiccans refer to the feast as "cakes and ale". In my trad we use mead and oatcakes. The beverage used is whatever is available to the culture. In my church we use juice, as we have children, and some folk who don't like alcohol. The term "wine" is used generically.
Almost every agrarian society has a shared feast as worship ritual. The use of bread and wine (ale, beer, mead, etc) is significant from an agrarian society because both require a transformative process that appears "magic" or miraculous (to those who didn't really know about yeast yet) The Divine is seen as both providing the materials, in the form of grain or grape, and more importantly the knowledge (in the form of baking or brewing) that transforms what would essentially be cattle feed, into food fit for human consumption.
The act of ritually recieving that food from the Gods (giving thanks) and then sharing communally in the bounty, is a metaphor for the success of the agrarian society as a whole.
Thus we have rice and rice wine or bread and wheat beer rituals in ancient China recorded in inscriptions as old as 2000BC. We have the Irish Yellow Book of Leinster and Book of the Dun Cow recording harvest feasts from about 100BC (and with no possible connection to Isreal). We have Aboriginal NAmerican corn feasts recorded by anthropologists. We have polynesian Taro feasts as well.
Egyptian tombs from as much as 4000BC record feasts with remarkable similarities to both the "last supper" and a Wiccan feast. They even give us the recipes for the ritual beer. Likewise we have temple archives from Sumerian, Babylonian, and Persian cultures whioch detail the same sort of ritual feast.
I think the most common view on the institution narratives in Christian scripture is that Jesus was doing things that his friends would have been very familiar with - saying a blessing over bread, and then over wine. The distinctive Christian part would have been the "in memory of me" bit. But the bread and wine ceremony was probably a cultural norm for him and his friends. I might be wrong about this being the most common view, but it's definitely a widely-held one.
I'm a rip-n-dipper, I don't dig the shot glass and dice. Somebody in our congregation has actually written the local health board, expressing concern about the sanitary aspects of intinction. The Worship and Music Committee has "received their letter and given it due consideration." Communion day before yesterday was intinction.
I love intinction. However I agree that the participants should be encouraged somehow to rip off a hunk (or at least a fare sized piece) to dip without getting their fingers in the wine.
When I'm serving I notice that some people just take a pinch between their fingers - no, no. Take more. There is enough to go around. Be extravagant.
After all, when Jesus and his disciples sat down to the last supper, it was a meal. When they broke the bread, they each received a chunk, not a crumb. Let us do likewise.
I've wondered if the loaf was partially precut in strips people would break off more.
Do UCC'ers rip their own piece of bread?
I don't understand the santitary concern with intinction. Is the fear that fingers are getting in the wine? Firstly, I think people try to void getting wine on their fingers -- its not like you have a napkin up there. Secondly, I would rather someone's fingers touch the wine than thier mouth -- I suppose it depends on the person, but surely mouths carry more germs than fingers.
'I think the most common view on the institution narratives in Christian scripture is that Jesus was doing things that his friends would have been very familiar with - saying a blessing over bread, and then over wine. '
Ya think? I was called the PASSOVER.
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GospeCrazywrote: I think the most common view on the institution narratives in Christian scripture is that Jesus was doing things that his friends would have been very familiar with - saying a blessing over bread, and then over wine. The distinctive Christian part would have been the "in memory of me" bit. But the bread and wine ceremony was probably a cultural norm for him and his friends. I might be wrong about this being the most common view, but it's definitely a widely-held one.
I would hope that the most common view would be that they were sharing a passover meal since that is what all the gospel texts say when they mention the last supper. To consider the institution narratives as springing from just an ordinary meal is to miss the richness and meaning of the words spoken in the context of a highly symbolic meal which is a cornerstone of Jewish religious tradition.
It would certainly be something they would all be familiar with as Jews since they would have celebrated the passover their whole lives. Since passover is a meal with special religious meaning in its recounting of the exodus and Jewish religious beliefs, I would suggest also that it was a religious norm rather than a cultural one (but I suppose we could quibble on this last point).
The only concern I have with communion by intinction is the tearing off pieces from the common loaf of bread. It can be difficult for those people with arthritis or limited fine motor skills in their hands to tear off a piece. Heck, I have none of those problems and seem to either end up with a little speck of bread or half the crust.
I prefer the bread (or even some of it) pre-cut into pieces as a way to include those of us who have difficulty ripping (and cutting it into rectangles makes life easier than little squares when it comes to dipping.)
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me: I also posted this same post on Churc h do's and dont's. will take ten lashes with a wet noodle.
I used to go up to the communion table after the service and grab more rip-n-dip (love bread and grape juice) until somebody told me about some Bible passage that says something to the effect that if you are hungry, eat before you come to church -- in other words, no eating communion bread after it's over. Well, now our minister makes sure to invite people to come up front after the service for more bread and juice.
"Firstly, I think people try to void getting wine on their fingers -- its not like you have a napkin up there."
All I know is my own experience (above), when fully 1/3 of the people at my station got one or two knuckles deep into the "wine." A couple of them gave the bread (and their fingers) a swish or two for good measure. If it weerer really wine, at least there would be some alcohol to act as an antiseptic.
"Secondly, I would rather someone's fingers touch the wine than thier mouth -- I suppose it depends on the person, but surely mouths carry more germs than fingers."
I'd rather NEITHER. All I could think of is that these were the same fingers that just moments before had taken part in the ritual handshaking (microbe sharing), so we were getting a dose of a dozen or so people's germs with every dunk.
Call me a microphobe, but hand-to-hand contact is one of the best methods for passing germs. I seem to have read somewhere that it even beats kissing, but I can't recall the source.
Gospel crazy wrote: (Oh, about the Passover thing: In John, it's the day before Passover, and in the earliest reporting we have - I Corinthians 11 - there's no mention of the Passover at all.)
John specifically mentions Passover in the context of the Upper Room before Jesus was killed but never actually includes the institution of communion.
Matthew mentions communion in the context of passover.
Mark mentions communion in the context of passover.
Luke mentions communion in the context of Passover.
Paul does not specifically mention passover but speaks of the night before he was betrayed (which call the gospels say happened at Passover) and calls Jesus "our pascal lamb" (I Co 5:7) and then talks about sharing the blood and body.
The Epistle to Hebrews draws comparisons between Jesus the pascal lamb and the sharing of blood and body.
I can't imagine thinking that communion has no connection to the Passover considering these texts.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
No shortage of possible subjects / themes for U.S. postage stamps
People may derisively refer to regular postal mail as "snail mail"; few people write personal letters anymore; and relatively few people request commemorative stamps when visiting the retail window at their local post office, but that hasn't stopped members of Congress from pushing particular subjects and themes on U.S. postage stamps.
LINN's STAMP NEWS reported recently: "This year alone, members of Congress have proposed 22 pieces of legislation expressing a desire to see one subject or another appear on a U.S. stamp."
Officially, the U.S. Postal Service proclaims Congressional requests for particular subjects on stamps are given the same weight as proposals from the public, except that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee is informed that particular suggestions came from Congress.
Among the subjects members of Congress have proposed for U.S. stamps: Five former members of Congress; Sun Records founder/producer Sam Phillips; Texas Revolutionary War hero Juan Nepomuceno Seguin; basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain; and the World War II-era crew of the U.S.S. Mason.
Also, a stamp commemorating murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; a stamp honoring law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty; and a stamp acknowledging America's barbers.
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is pushing for a "forever" stamp for all Purple Heart recipients.
You also have proposed "semipostal" stamps to raise money for Alzheimer's disease research; to benefit the Peace Corps; to raise money for a species conservation fund; and to subsidize gang prevention programs.
I must say I feel "old" whenever a stamp comes out depicting a person I once covered. But I would find it particularly surreal to see a stamp commemorating Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. He would be my first former "boss" to appear on a U.S. postage stamp!
Meanwhile, you can always suggest a subject or theme worthy of commemoration. Send your letter to:
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U.S. stamps can only portray deceased persons, although occasionally, projects or themes of living Americans have slipped through.
And remember, it would be downright sacrilegious to apply a metered stamp on your envelope addressed to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee.
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