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Latest Fact-Checks In Food Safety

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 25, 2025 a post:
Girl Scout cookies are “toxic” because a study showed they contain glyphosate and heavy metals.
Mostly False
By Sara Swann • March 14, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2024 a Facebook post:
"McDonalds chicken nuggets contain silicone oil."
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño • November 22, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 31, 2024 an Instagram post:
ProduceMaxx sprayed on organic produce at grocery stores contains pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and antibiotics.
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • April 11, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 4, 2023 a Facebook post:
"Vitamins aren’t FDA approved, but Twinkies are.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • April 7, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 15, 2020 an image:
"COVID-19 started because we eat animals."
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • March 18, 2020
Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn
stated on September 13, 2016 a letter to state health officials:
"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 29, 2016
Heather Moore
Heather Moore
stated on November 17, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary:
"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."  
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • December 6, 2015
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on December 25, 2010 a newspaper article:
The nation's food supply is "99.99 percent safe."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 19, 2011
Randy Leonard
Randy Leonard
stated on December 1, 2010 a city council meeting:
Cities like Seattle have decided to ban food carts.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • December 9, 2010