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In the News: Golden Clogs, Food Imports, Acetaminophen and Coffee

Posted by Alaina Browne, September 27, 2007

• Michael Ruhlman and Anthony Bourdain announce the inaugural Golden Clog Awards, the best and worst of the year in food. The award categories run the gamut from the Rocco Award, for worst career move by a talented chef, to the Chef's Chef Award, for the least heralded yet most deserving working chef. [Ruhlman.com]


• Economics drive surge in U.S. food imports: " 'There are economic factors that are pushing' this growth in food imports, David Acheson, FDA's food safety czar, said at a conference on food policy. 'The expectation is, I don't want to pay $5 for a head of lettuce. How are you going to deal with that? You import the food,' he said." [Reuters]


• More efforts to regulate U.S. food imports and address food safety concerns: A proposed bill would require shipments of foreign food to be funneled through 13 ports of entry, cutting out Chicago, Houston, Miami, and several hundred other cities. [Washington Post]


• Coffee and Tylenol don't mix: A study published online yesterday in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology found that big doses of caffeine (found in Red Bull and regular coffee) combined with acetaminophen or Tylenol may well raise the risk of liver damage. [U.S. News & World Report]

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