{"id":1046,"date":"2014-05-13T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:35:04","slug":"organic-tofu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/05\/organic-tofu\/","title":{"rendered":"Botulism in &#8216;organic&#8217; tofu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/9eb44681203d827634e9695252986626\/tumblr_n5afjmkst41qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The warning came from the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food.gov.uk\/enforcement\/alerts\/2014\/apr\/engineshed-tofu#.U3GXNIF5Muh\">Food Standards Agency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Various batches of vacuum-packed Organic Tofu have been produced with <strong>inadequate controlling factors<\/strong> to prevent the growth and toxin production of <em>Clostridium botulinum<\/em>. This <strong>may cause a serious form of food poisoning called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botulism\">botulism<\/a><\/strong>. A recall from customers is being carried out as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theengineshed.org\/\">The Engine Shed<\/a>, has started recalling contaminated lots and has <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.food.gov.uk\/multimedia\/pdfs\/alerts\/engineshed-notice.pdf\">warned customers<\/a> not to consume the product.<\/p>\n<p>So called <strong>&#8216;organic&#8217; produce is dangerous<\/strong> because it&#8217;s not held to the same standards regular food is. &#8216;Organic&#8217; regulation -if any- is too lax. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naturalistic_fallacy\">naturalistic fallacy<\/a> is taking its toll in public policy everywhere and putting consumers&#8217; health on harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warning came from the UK&#8217;s Food Standards Agency:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[111,112,237,52],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-organic","tag-food","tag-health","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}