News on Bulk Food

2010-03-16 ECanadaNow and raquo; Ontario Probes New Listeria Cases: Update

The recall issued by Siena Foods on Thursday, which included the ham and salami, includes Siena products that have a best-before date between March 8 and from delis, grocery stores, and specialty food shops in Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. The contaminated prosciutto and mild cacciatore salami was first sold to food stores in bulk and then directly to consumers after .

An investigation in Ontario into deli meats contaminated with listeria now includes the review of five deaths. According to a spokesperson with the provinces Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, investigators will examine the deaths for any possible connections to the food items from Siena Foods Ltd recently recalled. Some of these recalled products had been distributed throughout Canada. However, investigators are only considering deaths in Ontario for possible links.

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2010-03-08 Get involved

Office help needed: An organization is looking for volunteers to perform office tasks that include stuffing envelopes, working on bulk mailings and making follow-up phone calls. This position is very flexible and is on an as-needed basis.

Organize a food pantry: A local organization needs help stocking and organizing its food pantry and keeping an inventory of food items as donations are received.

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2010-03-05 Volunteer Center of Grant County to put money to work - Silver City Sun-News

Volunteers meet once a month for a few hours at the Silver City Food Co-op to re-pack bulk food items into smaller portions that will be distributed at the food pantry run by the Volunteer Center of Grant County. The Volunteer Center purchases bulk food at cost from the co-op. From left are Al Candelaria, Deanna Mooney, Rick Ley, community outreach coordinator; and Food Pantry Manager Carolyn Smith; John Mooney and Joy Fujioko.

The Silver City Food Co-op supports the Volunteer Center and the Food Pantry in a number of other ways. It pays a dedicated staff person to oversee the Food Pantry and act as manager. It sells bulk items like organic oats, rice and beans to the Food Pantry at a discounted rate, and provides space in its community room for repacking the items from 25 or 125 pound bags into smaller size portions for distribution. Eight volunteers from the community donate their time once a month to repack the items.

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SILVER CITY -- The Volunteer Center of Grant County has been awarded a usd. 50,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to help with operating expenses.

2010-03-03 Illinois Valley Cellular provides meals for area food pantries - My Web Times

The holiday promotion was simple: For every new Illinois Valley Cellular customer or existing customers who upgraded their service, customers were asked to donate either usd. 10, usd. 25 or usd. 50 - along with matching funds from the company - to the local food pantries. The promotion yielded donations from every corner of Illinois Valley Cellulars service area. Molines Riverbend Food Bank, the organization that provides goods to more than 15 local food pantries in five of the eight counties received the bulk of the donations.

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2010-03-02 Backpack program provides food for students in need Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

What we need is money donations and food donations," Lepak said. "No glass items, and have it in bulk where its like 20 items, so then we have enough to put a can of vegetables in each backpack; thats the best way to approach that. "

On Thursday, the students shopped for their donations at Piggly Wiggly, buying an array of dinner and breakfast meals, along with snacks. The plan is to fill each backpack with about usd. 7. 50 worth of food, to go along with the voucher to purchase hamburger meat, milk and other fresh items.

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NEKOOSA -- Stephanie Hamelink knows what its like to not always have the food you want available in your home; thats why shes relishing the opportunity to give her time to others. - WRT-Local News Wisconsin Rapids WI News local news headlines stories world news

2010-02-28 Pluses and Minuses The Newark Advocate

Its time for one of the most important charity drives of the year locally, especially given the state of the local economy and needs of many. The 20th annual Operation Feed Campaign will begin on Monday and run through . This drive generates 70 percent of the funding and food needed by the Food Pantry Network each year. As always, its better to make a cash donation that allows for bulk food purchases than donating purchased groceries, although both are welcome. Donations can be sent to: Food Pantry Network, 823 Steel Ave. , Newark, 43055

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Minus: Our communitys prayers remain with a Granville man critically injured in a weightlifting accident Monday at a Newark health club. Chris Harmon, 20, dropped a 250-pound weight on his - Editorials Newark Ohio News local news headlines stories world news

2010-02-26 Yale Daily News - Staying sustainable by buying in bulk

Yale Dining is accustomed to purchasing its food supplies, even sustainable options, in bulk. But since the expansion of Yale Dinings sustainable options in 2006, dining administrators have been investigating new ways to serve sustainable options year round. This includes looking for new ways to preserve seasonal foods, such as vegetables grown in Connecticut, Remer said.

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, sustainable fishing practices ensure that fish populations are not destroyed and natural food chains are not disrupted. For wild seafood, sustainable fishing requires that overfished species are not consumed. On the other hand, farming fish is sustainable when certain practices are undertaken to prevent habitat damage, to contain non-native fish and to provide sustainable fish feed.

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2010-02-25 Food preservation workshop Wednesday The Ithaca Journal

Ithacan members will also discuss plans to facilitate bulk buying of locally grown food through an Internet widget it will pilot-test on its Web site. The widget, Farm-to-Pantry, is being built by Authentrics Inc. , an Ithaca-area software development firm, which has received one of 17 Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Sustainable Community Grants for the project.

IthaCan, a network of home food preservers, plans its annual home food preserving workshop for 6-9 p. m at the Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road, also known as state Route 366.

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2010-02-24 Salix Draws Action In Volatility Plays

Trading in Salix spiked to 13 times the normal level as investors prepared for the Food and Drug Administration to convene a panel Tuesday to discuss the companys rifaximin drug, which treats a liver disorder.

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OPTIONS REPORT: The options market played host to a lot of trading in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companiesa notoriously volatile group whose options attract a lot of speculators and volatility players. Salix, InterMune and Medivation all drew action.

2010-02-23 Price control, fighting terror priorities for Indian government - Oneindia News

She said that state governments have been asked to take effective action against hoarders and black marketers and make appropriate use of state agencies for procurement of non PDS food articles in bulk.

Addressing the joint sitting of the Parliament today, President Patil assert that the UPA government accords highest importance to ensuring relief to the aam admi on food prices and said it is committed to bring a legislation to ensure food security.

In the longer term, our food security can be ensured only through sustained efforts at increasing agricultural productivity combined with a comprehensive reform of the public distribution system and open market intervention," she added.

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New Delhi (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil today assured that the government is doing its best to ensure that the prices of commodities are kept in check. - Price control fighting terror priorities for Indian government