| NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, February 28, 2007
- To report an outage or document a problem, call the ESPC Operations Crew Lead at 301-457-5218. All LRIT data users are encouraged to report problems to: LRIT@noaa.gov J59 GOES The GOES s/c have entered eclipse season. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html for the eclipse schedule All GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For GOES status and other information please see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/index.htm POES All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For a detailed status and description of POES see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/index.htm DMSP All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.
Grocers pull recalled peanut butter
Several area grocery stores pulled recalled jars of peanut butter off their shelves Thursday, taking no chances after the brands were linked to a salmonella outbreak. Food Lion in Stanleytown, Kroger and Wal-Mart all removed the recalled peanut from their shelves on Thursday. Wal-Mart carried both the Great Value and Peter Pan brands, while Food Lion had the Peter Pan brand. ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide, The Associated Press reported. Lids of jars with a product code beginning “2111" can be returned to ConAgra for a refund, the company said. Affected jars were produced by ConAgra at a plant in Sylvester, Ga.
Enterprising army duo serves up menu that’s good for you
When you call Karistinos and Hou you dont just find out whats good. Youre also told whats good for you. The duo educates customers on how to eat healthy by showing them on the menu just how certain food benefit the body.
We break everything down right to the bone, Karistinos said. We find out our customers blood type and supply them with a menu beneficial to them.
Sometimes theyre asked to prepare a healthy diet a customer can follow on his or her own.
Our biggest success story gone public would have to be Stavaros Samaras, Karistinos said, referring to the Toronto resident who was featured as a loss leader in the January issue of Maximum Fitness magazine.
The 64 Samaras weighed 300 lb. at age 18. After following a regimen set out by Garrison Healthy Catering, he was down to 225 lb.
Health food emporium marks 30th anniversary
PASSAIC -- When Jeanetta Brancaccio started the A-1 Nutrition health food store in 1977, her family thought she was a nut. Her father, who owned the Passaic store "People's Market" during the Great Depression, was born on an island off the coast of Sicily -- in a culture where pesticides and processed foods were simply unfathomable. Brancaccio's search for rarities like wheat germ and short grain brown rice led her parents to wonder what all the fuss was about. .
Community Supported Agriculture brings the farm to your front door
It can be a cardboard box overflowing with green onions, pea tendrils, lettuce, spinach, radishes, strawberries and rhubarb. You can pick it up -- if it's not too heavy for you -- at the farm where it was raised. Or the farm can deliver it to you on a regular, usually weekly, schedule. You and other "subscribers" in the community prepay to be members and receive your "shares," thus sustaining the farm while it sustains you. That's CSA: Community Supported Agriculture. It's a growing phenomenon, nationwide and in this region, where there are moves afoot to start CSA programs at several large businesses and universities. It's also one that prospective consumers should ponder now, and not just because it's fun to fantasize about succulent spring greens. Farmers who offer CSA subscriptions, as they're called, need to plan their planting and distribution.
Eat To Live: Are food agencies healthy?
WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Remember the contaminated spinach health scare? How many of you are still suspicious enough of the stuff that you haven't gone back to buying it? Another incident has so far involved more than 300 people in 39 states who got salmonella poisoning from Peter Pan peanut butter and Wal-Mart's Great Value brand. The warning affects jars with the product code 2111, manufactured at ConAgra's Sylvester, Ga., plant. If we relied more on local producers we could look in the eye while buying their wares, chances are we would be less in danger of falling sick from food. (Of course, it would mean giving up peanut butter unless you made your own -- not hard with a batch of peanuts in their shells, a food processor and some nimble-fingered children, but time consuming).
Botulism Risk From Earth's Best' Baby Food Product
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to consumers about botulism risk connected to certain jars of Earth's Best baby food. The FDA warns that Organic 2 Apple Peach Barley Wholesome breakfast jars, which are available individually and in variety packs, are unsafe to eat. Jars contaminated with the botulism bacteria will not smell or look different from a safe product. Within 18-36 hours after eating, infants may not feed well, become constipated, and become listless and not move much. Often, they may drool from the mouth and have difficulty swallowing. If untreated, serious paralysis can develop and cause respiratory distress that may require hospitalization. The bacteria produces a toxin in the body that acts on the central nervous system and causes onset of symptoms within 10 days after eating.
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