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Racial Consciousness Drives Rebranding

Posted by Penelope Gordon on 2020/07/30
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July 2020 Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream (a subsidiary of Froneri) is the latest company to change a product name to remove potentially negative connotations. They will remove the word “Eskimo” from their chocolate covered ice cream bars along with the image of an anorak clad Inuit.

June 2020 To remove racially charged product names and imagery, PepsiCo is retiring its Aunt Jemima product line, Mars is “evolving” the imagery of its Uncle Ben’s product line, B&G Foods is reviewing its Cream of Wheat brand, and Conagra is reviewing its Mrs. Butterworth brand.

Antimicrobials

Posted by Penelope Gordon on 2016/05/08
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ECA

The electrochemically activated water (ECA) or electrolysed water used in industrial food processing is created from purified water and sodium chloride (salt).  The combination results in sodium chloride (a cleaner) and hypochlorous acid (an oxidizer).  ECA is used to protect against viruses in meat and poultry (more often on food-contact surfaces than directly on the food) and to sanitize beverages.  The US FDA limit for free active chlorine is 50ppm on food and 200ppm on food-contact surfaces.

Medical Records

Posted by Penelope Gordon on 2015/02/16
Posted in: Bon Voyage. Leave a Comment

If available, get an electronic copy of medical records from your health provider and then carry the pertinent subset with you on your travels.  Kaiser Permanente of Northern California offers its patients the option to get their PEMR (Portable Electronic Medical Records) on a USB key (aka thumb drive or flash drive; a pinkie finger-sized storage device that plugs into a USB port on your computer).  Kaiser patients can also access and download their records via the Internet.  See the Kaiser February 2015 newsletter (Kaiser Permanente Partners In Health) for more information.