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Latest Fact-Checks In Food Safety

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Facebook posts
stated on July 23, 2022 a Facebook post:
Baby carrots are soaked in bleach and can cause cancer.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • July 29, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2022 a post:
“Don't let this formula shortage scare you!!! Make your baby some hemp milk w/sea moss. It’s easy I promise!”
False
By Monique Curet • May 19, 2022
NaturalNews.com
NaturalNews.com
stated on December 29, 2021 a Facebook post:
"Food crops can be engineered right now based on existing technology to cause infertility in Black people alone.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 7, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 11, 2021 a Facebook post:
“McDonald’s puts aborted baby fetuses in their food.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • December 17, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 a post on Facebook:
“If you make $50,000/year, $36 of your taxes goes to food stamps. $4,000 goes to corporate subsidies.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Poll Finds 38% of Americans Say They Will Not Drink Corona Beer Because of Virus."
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 15, 2019 a Facebook post:
Says the FDA will now require sealed ice cream cartons in response to the Blue Bell ice cream licker, thus driving up the cost for consumers.
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 17, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 10, 2019 a meme:
"Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2019
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on June 29, 2016 a podcast.:
"A few weeks ago, (the) education committee in Congress is deciding what’s going to be in your local salad bar."
False
By Warren Fiske • August 2, 2016
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 21, 2015 posts on social media:
Say Michelle Obama "mandates" weighing children in day care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015
Allen West
Allen West
stated on March 19, 2015 a post on his website:
"EPA wants to regulate … the family BBQ."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 10, 2014 posts on Facebook:
"Fox admits they lie" and, under the First Amendment, "have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves."  
False
By Linda Qiu • September 10, 2014
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on February 26, 2011 an oped column.:
Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 10, 2010 a news release:
"We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse."
False
By Tom Feran • December 6, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 2, 2010 Rick Perry's book, "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington":
Says the federal government restricts "how much salt we can put on our food."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 6, 2010
Ted Ankrum
Ted Ankrum
stated on August 31, 2010 an e-mail blast.:
"More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2010
Kevin Levitas
Kevin Levitas
stated on May 25, 2010 a press releaase:
"Georgia has a well-deserved reputation for setting the gold standard for food safety."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 13, 2010
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