Tuesdays links on Thursday

(Yes, I forgot to post them again.)

• “From January to June 2009, at least 69 people from 29 states have gotten sick with E. coli O157:H7.  Many of them confessed to eating Nestlé’s raw cookie dough.” [Marion Nestle]

• Fooducate’s 11 Quick Facts about Phosphoric Acid (Yes, that Chemical in Coca Cola) reminds me of Meghan’s recent post about Coca Cola titled “Coke Makes People Fat”. I read the update today, in which she printed an email response that she received from the Public Affairs Manager from Coca-Cola Canada defending the drink. I guess their PR people monitor mentions of their company online. It’s the right PR strategy. It’s what we do in government. (Media monitoring and now new media monitoring – blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc. -  thanks to me.)

• I still don’t believe that you can make processed cheese healthy. [Decision News Media]

• No thanks to bland, mutant strawberries: Letters in Saturday’s Toronto Star respond to their strawberry story from the previous Saturday. Reading the first letter, I felt like telling her to go see Food Inc., or to stay away from it. It would break her heart. See video of original story here:

• New national (Canadian) standards for organic food take effect today (June 30). [CBC]

• For my local readers: Taste T.O.’ Summerlicious Survival Guide.