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Guam is especially vulnerable to this because we have such a diversity of cultures on our island. Thanks is due to the Guam legislature for passing a regulation start.
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Guam’s nearly 20-year-old food safety policies could soon get what officials say is a much-needed update.

Sen. Dennis Rodriguez Jr., D-Dededo, introduced a bill that proposes administrative rules and regulations for safety and health of food service establishments and operations within the food service industry.

Bill 307-31 includes the updated codes as developed by the Guam Food Safety Task Force.

Some of those updates includes requirements to wear gloves when preparing food, as well as temperatures required to store food and cook food properly.

Guam’s policies for food service establishments and operations were last updated in the mid-1980s, according to Ronald Carandang, Department of Public Health and Social Services health inspector.

Public Health officials were tasked, along with other food safety officials, to update Guam’s food safety code by then-Gov. Carl Gutierrez, according to Executive Order 2000-20. The Guam Food Safety Task Force included representatives from the health-care community, food industry and the military.

Despite working on the updates for years, the group didn’t have the necessary support from the Legislature. A portion of what was required was a budget necessary to perform an environmental impact study, which Public Health officials said is necessary to edit or update regulations.

The press release from Rodriguez’s office noted that on May 19, 2010, the task force voted to transmit the proposed Guam Food Code to the 30th Guam Legislature’s Committee on Health & Human Services. The members sought to have the proposed code adopted via legislation. And though they did submit the proposal, still nothing happened.

This year, Public Health officials presented the proposed code to the 31st Guam Legislature almost as soon as the senators took office.

“I am pleased that in spearheading the development of the proposed guidelines, the Guam Food Safety Task Force made a good faith effort to be inclusive of the affected stakeholders in the food service industry,” Rodriguez stated.

Barry Mead, a professor with the Guam Community College who teaches food safety courses for food industry employees and management, said it’s “very necessary to get this legislation passed now.”

“These food codes were created to protect the most vulnerable in our community,” Mead said, noting that group includes children, senior citizens and pregnant women.

The currently proposed Guam Food Code reflects the U.S. 2005 Model Food Code developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“I believe it is time for Guam’s food safety codes to be brought up to today’s standards,” Rodriguez stated. “I believe this to be a work product that accomplishes this, which is why I am willing to introduce it for legislative, as well as further public, consideration.”
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I said “Pass,” let’s hope it gets done.

Anna

When Jimmy Carter, LBJ and the New Deal start looking pretty harmless compared to the Obama administration, things must be a lot worse than we thought.

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Barack Obama is not the first African-American President. He’s the first Scandinavian Prime Minister of the United States. Dispassionate, super-rational — and a big fan of big government, European-style.

He and his “sophisticated,” elite cronies are aiming for nothing short of “a full-scale Europeanization of American exceptionalism.”

They’re driving us toward nanny-state security — even dictating which light bulb to buy.

They favor bureaucratic regulation over a thriving, free-market economy.

We are hurtling toward a moment that will plunge the US into European-style stasis at best, and complete disintegration at worst.

There is no recovery if we let that happen.

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The Middle East is dominated by Iran…

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I am in one of those states. Wi, put that dimwit Paul Ryan into office. My husband acts positively gay when the guy is mouthing off the most insane dribble anyone has ever heard.

The guy is agains taxing Millionaires, and my barely making it husband, loves the idea. Michelle we are worth maybe $100,000. That’s it. Why is he so into not taxing Millionaires?

Stupid, the white men here are so in need of self esteem. They are so intimidated by the black president.

Irene

What a smart business move it was for cosmetic and skin-care companies to formulate facial moisturizers that also contain broad-spectrum sunscreen (meaning that they provide UV-A and UV-B protection) to save our vulnerable faces from the sun’s damaging UV rays —

the ones that not only cause premature aging of the skin, leaving you with brown spots, lines and wrinkles, but also melanoma, the deadly skin cancer.

Trusting that these products actually will protect you turns out not to be such a smart move, however!

A new study tested 29 facial moisturizers that promised to offer broad-spectrum UV protection, ranging in sun protection factor (SPF) from 15 to 50, and found that only a few of these products really did the trick. Shame on the marketers!

I talked to Steven Q. Wang, MD, a dermatologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and one of the study’s authors, about how this could be so, and he explained the problem:

Most of the moisturizers protect you from UV-B waves — in fact, the SPF number on the label refers only to UV-B — but they don’t protect you from UV-A waves.

UV-A RAYS — DANGEROUS AND INESCAPABLE

This distinction is important because UV-A rays are the ones that penetrate deep into your skin and can damage cells that grow well below the surface.

Additionally, those rays are ever present — whether it’s winter or summer, raining or cloudy, because UV-A rays can pass through clouds and even get into your home.

“In day-to-day living, exposure to UV-B is relatively small,” Dr. Wang told me.

“But UV-A rays get through glass — so if you’re sitting in your car or your office or near a window at home, you need more UV-A protection.”

The US Food and Drug Administration does not regulate the claims of such products, and there is no other regulation of UV-A claims in particular, nor any official definition of “broad-spectrum” —

so there is no government watchdog looking at what a consumer gets, which is what led Dr. Wang and his colleagues to undertake this study, published in the January 20, 2011, issue of The Archives of Dermatology.

Dr. Wang won’t reveal the brands he studied or those that passed the test, pointing out that manufacturers often change ingredients.

Instead, he suggests that as consumers, we all need to look out for ourselves by examining the ingredients of any facial moisturizer with sunscreen we are considering using.

And paying more doesn’t necessarily buy more protection, Dr. Wang said — for example, the most expensive product he looked at, at $64 per ounce, offered absolutely no protection from UV-A rays.

WHAT TO BUY

So what should you look for? Examine the list of “active ingredients” on the package, and buy products that have the following:

A combination of avobenzone and octocrylene. Dr. Wang explained that the octocrylene makes the avobenzone more stable.

If avobenzone is not present, ecamsule is shown to be protective against UV-A rays. In this case, it is stable on its own.

Zinc oxide also offers good protection against UV-A rays.

If ever there were a case of caveat emptor, this is it. If you plan to buy a facial moisturizer with sunscreen, make sure you allot yourself a bit of extra time so you can read those labels carefully!
Source(s):

Steven Q. Wang, MD, director of dermatologic surgery and dermatology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Basking Ridge, New Jersey.