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Feast Your Eyes: Food's Gallery of Shame

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The FDA has a Flickr page, and alongside a handful of fascinating snapshots of mobile testing laboratories and rare diseases is a photostream of tainted, mislabeled, or otherwise defective foods—a hall of shame for recalled products.

  • Nicola TwilleyNicola Twilley
    Author of Edible Geography; former Food Editor
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