We did find good choices when we cooked some 620 full-fat and lower-fat hot dogs from 23 well-known brands and leading retailers on a concession stand-style grill with rollers. Today, according to Department of Agriculture standards, they re made of beef, pork, poultry, or a blend of all of those, which can contain no more than 30 percent fat, plus water used to cool the meat as it is ground, binders such as nonfat dry milk or cereal, salt, sweeteners, and seasonings. While three of the...

Battling mosquitoes, heat and drought, Hung plants, transplants, weeds, picks and pulls his crops, putting in hard work and long hours in the gardens and driving his produce to his customers. For Hung, ginkgo trees are not just a business, they are his gift to the environment and society. Determined not to give up, Hung had a friend in China graft branches on established ginkgo tree roots that would meet the height and age requirements. After settling on a plan to sell male ginkgo trees,...

USDA officials say they do not track how much meat is put into ''cook only'' categories, but interviews with a half-dozen inspectors suggested it is a significant amount. coli are allowed to shift that meat immediately into ''cook only'' lines, without reporting it to the USDA. But Sneed said she and most school lunch program managers did not know that the cooked beef they use in school lunches could have come from cattle contaminated with E. coli loophole'' affects millions of pounds of...

Most federal, state, county, and municipal offices will be closed today in observance of Veterans Day. With the changes, members of the FMC Board of Directors are Richard Taliaferro, DDS, board chairman; Richard Reifsnyder, vice chairman; Terry Sinclair, MD, medical advisor; Candace Davenport; Fabiola Hutchins; Candace Littell; Sean O Mara, MD, JD; Elizabeth Pendleton; Faith Power; Diane Sinclair; Kathy Tagnesi; and Courtney Warner. With the changes, members of the FMC Board of Directors...

Department of Agriculture officials told the company that its shipment, valued at $750,000, contained potentially unsafe feathers from France, he said. Diaz declined to name, faced a nearly $10,000 bill from another private company that held the cargo before it was able to enter the country. The company was told to export the cargo or destroy it within 48 hours. Diaz says such situations, in which small importers face huge costs to bring products into the U. Diaz, apologized for the...