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U.S. Food & Drug Administra​tion (FDA)


03/06/2013 01:23 PM EST
Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, has issued a voluntary recall on specific codes of 5-ounce Chunk White Albacore and Chunk Light Tuna products. The recall has been issued because the products do not meet the company’s standards for seal tightness.
03/05/2013 12:36 PM EST
The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Bakery in Clackamas, Oregon is recalling select Wheat Bread products sold at the company’s Fred Meyer Stores in Idaho, Oregon and Washington and QFC stores in Oregon and Washington because these products may contain pieces of plastic. Customers should return the product to stores for a full refund or replacement.
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What’s in KFC’s secret recipe?

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Greenpeace
KFC is trashing critical Sumatran tiger habitat with its throw-away packaging.
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Tell KFC to stop using rainforest destruction before it’s too late!
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Rainforest destruction. Not what you expected? Unfortunately it’s true. Our researchers have found that KFC’s throw-away packaging contains fiber from Indonesia’s rainforest.
That’s right. KFC is destroying the habitat of the last remaining Sumatran tigers for potato wedges and 12-piece buckets of extra crispy chicken. It’s disgusting.
KFC gets the paper for its packaging from a notoriously destructive company called Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). And APP is driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia at an alarming rate to meet KFC’s demands — leaving endangered Sumatran tigers with nowhere to go.
Don’t let fast food packaging be the end of the Sumatran tiger and everything else that calls the Indonesian rainforest home. Help us send 50,000 messages to KFC in the next 72 hours by taking action right now.
Tell KFC to stop using rainforest destruction before it’s too late.
Greenpeace activists are delivering the very same message at KFC’s headquarters in Kentucky right now. It’s all part of the next phase in our campaign to protect the Sumatran tiger and save the Indonesian rainforest.
Together, we’ve already convinced some of the world’s largest companies — Nestle, Mattel, Kroger — to cut ties with APP. Now it’s time to keep the momentum going and do the same with KFC.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Sumatran tiger thrived in Indonesia. Today there are only a few hundred left in the wild. What will this look like a week from now? A month? A year? The answer to that question is up to us.
Companies like Asia Pulp & Paper are showing no signs of letting up. Even with all of our successes, at the current rate of destruction, the forecast for these tigers and the rainforest itself isn’t looking good.
It’s not too late, but KFC has to stop buying packaging from Asia Pulp & Paper. It won’t be easy and the company is only going to do it if we generate enough public outcry. That’s why it’s so important that you take action today.
Help us expose the truth behind KFC’s real recipe and tell it to stop serving up fast food in forest destruction. Send your email today.
For the forests,
Rolf Skar Greenpeace USA Forest Campaign Director
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Victory for Sumatran Tigers: Kroger Pulls APP Products


Great news. We’ve won another huge victory for Sumatran tigers and the Indonesian rainforest they call home.

Thanks to your hard work, Kroger — which was previously the largest seller of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) consumer tissue products in the US — has put out a public statement saying it will stop sourcing from APP. We only launched this campaign in October and within five days over 50,000 people like you took action. It’s clear that Kroger got the message.

The bad news is that APP still wants to sell tissue linked to rainforest destruction here in the US. Even after losing its largest US customer, APP is still refusing to take the simple steps needed to solve this problem. And, there are still major retailers in this country selling APP products. Kmart is one of the largest.

Our campaign is clearly working. Help us keep up the momentum and tell Kmart to follow Kroger’s lead by removing APP’s tissue products from its shelves until APP cleans up its act.

Rainforest destruction wrapped up in the form of throw-away tissue products is starting to pop up all over the US. Often stores selling the products don’t even know it. Together we can change that, harnessing the power of the marketplace to save forests in Indonesia.

Now is the time to keep the pressure up. That is why it is so important that you take a minute now to tell Kmart that there shouldn’t be any space for rainforest-destroying toilet paper on its store shelves.

With only 400 Sumatran tigers left, we can’t stop now. Now is the time to re-double our efforts, stand tall, and tell retailers not to buy APP tissue products until it ends its deforestation habit for good.

For the forests,

Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner

P.S. If we want to get Kmart to do the right thing, we need to spread the word far and wide. After you take action, please be sure to forward this email to friends and family who you think would also like to help out. The last 400 Sumatran tigers — and their rainforest home — are depending on us.