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Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

November 30, 2013 by · Comments Off on Apostle Islands, Wisconsin 

Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin. The majority of the islands are located in Ashland County-only Sand, York, Eagle, and Raspberry Islands are located in Bayfield County. All the islands except for Madeline Island are part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The islands in Ashland County are all in the Town of La Pointe, except for Long Island, which is in the Town of Sanborn, while those in Bayfield County are in the Towns of Russell and Bayfield.

The islands are the spiritual home for the Lake Superior Chippewa. The islands were named the Apostle Islands by New France historian Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, who named them after the 12 apostles (for the 12 largest islands).

“The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore provides regionally diverse and unique plant communities.” “Over 800 plant species occur within the lakeshore, including Wisconsin listed endangered and threatened species.” The Apostles are dominated by boreal forest, composed largely of white spruce (Picea glauca) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea), often mixed with white birch (Betula papyrifera), white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), white pine (Pinus strobus), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). On Madeline Island, Stockton Island, and several other islands, a unique bog-dune ecosystem can be found near deep bays and enclosed lagoons.

According to the National Park Service, “One of the greatest concentrations of black bears in North America is found on Stockton Island in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Bears also regularly inhabit Sand and Oak islands, and, due to their mobility, may be found on just about any of the Apostle Islands.”

“The Lakeshore provides important nesting habitat for the following colonial nesting birds: herring and ring-billed gulls, double-crested cormorants, great blue herons, and cliff swallows. Gull and Eagle Islands combined have 88% of the lakeshore’s breeding herring gull populations and 80% of the herring gull breeding population on the entire Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior. Eagle Island has the only great blue heron rookery in the park.”

Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

Zip Herring Recall Listeria Contamination

February 27, 2012 by · Comments Off on Zip Herring Recall Listeria Contamination 

Zip Herring Recall Listeria Contamination, ZIP INTERNATIONAL GROUP LLC, 160 Raritan Center Parkway #6, Edison, NJ 08837 is expanding its recall of sliced herring fillet (forelka) 330 gram and 600 gram in plastic packaging due to Listeria contamination. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women

The recalled sliced herring fillet (forelka) 330 gram and 600 gram in plastic packaging includes best by date 5/18/2012 . The best by date is located on the round side of the packaging and was sold to retail grocery stores in New York State. It is a product of Ukraine.

The recall was initiated after routine sampling by New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets Food Inspectors and subsequent analysis of the product by Food Laboratory personnel found the product to be positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem. Consumers who have purchased sliced herring fillet (forelka) should not consume it, but should return it to the place of purchase. Consumers with questions may contact the company @ 732-225-3600, 9:00AM-5:00 PM EST from Monday to Friday.

Source: FDA

Cooked Pork Hocks Recall Wheat

February 27, 2012 by · Comments Off on Cooked Pork Hocks Recall Wheat 

Cooked Pork Hocks Recall Wheat, Han Yang Inc. of Milwaukee, WI is recalling approximately 25,600 pounds of cooked pork hocks because they contain wheat, an allergen not noted on the label.

The label omission was discovered by a USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service inspector during a label review.

There have been no reports of adverse reactions.

The recall is of shrink-wrapped packages of various weights of “JANG CHUNG DONG HAN YANG KING JOAK BAL COOKED PORK HOCKS” with EST. 21880 inside the USDA mark of inspection. The pork hocks, produced between Oct. 7, 2011 and Feb. 7, 2012, have a four month shelf life and were distributed to wholesalers and retailers in Los Angeles and Chicago.

For more information contact the company’s president, Chang Choi, at 414-389-1099.

February 2012 Meat Recalls

February 27, 2012 by · Comments Off on February 2012 Meat Recalls 

February 2012 Meat Recalls, AA Meat Products Corporation, a Maywood, Calif. establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of meat and poultry products because they may have been produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

30-pound and 22-pound cases of the following products produced between January 11, 2011, and February 8, 2012:

“AA Scalded Beef Omasum Tripe”
“AA Honeycomb Beef Tripe”
“AA Scalded Beef Tripe Menudo De Vovino”
“AA Beef Omasum Tripe”
“AA Beef Tripe”

Various weights of the following products produced between March 5, 2011, and February 8, 2012:

Pork chops
Beef short ribs
Beef tongues
Boneless beef shank
Boneless beef ribeye lipon
Boneless beef short plate
Boneless beef strip loin
Beef fat

10-pound bags of the following products produced between April 7, 2011, and February 8, 2012:

Chicken feet
Duck feet
Pork uteri

Additionally the pork uteri, chicken feet, and duck feet products may have been produced using sodium percarbonate, a food additive, which is not approved for use in these specific products.

Case labels or packaging may bear the establishment numbers “EST. 21492,” “P-21492” or “EST. 21492A” in the USDA mark of inspection or “EST. 21492” simply ink-jetted on the case label. The products were sold in California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The problem was discovered during an on-going investigation by FSIS.

FSIS has received no reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.

FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that recalled product is no longer available to consumers. If available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at: www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Recalls/Open_Federal_Cases/
index.asp.

Consumer and media questions regarding the recall can contact Johnny Wu, a company representative, at (626) 376-2819.

Consumers with food safety questions can “Ask Karen,” the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at www.AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. “Ask Karen” live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day.

Wisconsin Protests

February 17, 2011 by · Comments Off on Wisconsin Protests 

Wisconsin Protests, (CNN) – Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin Republic compared the demonstrations in the capital of his state with those of Egypt that led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. “He (the governor Scott Walker) is riot is like Cairo moved to Madison these days,” Ryan said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. Thousands protested in the capital on Tuesday and Wednesday on a bill that would deprive the public of Wisconsin employees most of their collective bargaining rights and make them pay more for benefits.

Walker said he is facing a fiscal crisis, including lost profits and $ 137 million, and Ryan supported the newly elected Republican governor, saying he “does not take much.” “It amounts to saying I want you to public sector workers to pay half of what our private parties are against it, and he began to riot,” said Ryan. “People should be able to express their way, but we have to get this deficit and debt under control, in Madison, so we have a good business climate and creating jobs in Wisconsin.”

According to the press secretary Walker, Cullen Werwie, the controversial bill is expected to reach the state Senate on Thursday and possibly Assembly (lower house) on Friday.

Organization The Democratic National Committee for America’s arms – the rest of the 2008 campaign Obama – plays an active role in organizing protests against the attempt by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to the band most public employees bargaining rights collective.

OFA, as the campaign group is known, has sometimes been criticized for staying out of local issues such as same-sex marriage, but the district using the public sector unions who hopes to persuade some Republican lawmakers’ s oppose the proposed Walker. And while Obama may have his differences with the teachers’ unions, commitment OFA and the fight – and Obama’s own clear position against Walker – means he is staying loyal to key allies in the Democratic Party is for them, a very dangerous time.

Efforts on the ground OFA Wisconsin include filling buses and construction rates for rallies this week in Madison, the organization of 15 banks phone rapid response urging supporters to call their state legislators, and working on planning and production of gatherings, a Democratic Party official in Washington.

Governor Walker will not even talk to workers of state its proposal to strip them of their rights. He ignores the voice of Wisconsin today and asking the authority to permanently drown tomorrow.

We are ready to do everything we can to make sure this does not happen. OFA volunteers will fight for our friends with government jobs, our allies in the labor movement and the freedom of all Wisconsinites to organize their communities.

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