FEW THINGS ARE PERFECT

Quest Acknowledges Errors in Vitamin D Tests
By ANDREW POLLACK Published: January 7, 2009
"The nation’s largest medical laboratory company provided possibly erroneous results to thousands of people who had their vitamin D levels tested in the last two years, the company has acknowledged." You can read the whole article here. Since thousands had erroneous test results, it is of concern since a too low reading could have someone take to much supplement, thinking they needed it. If the reading was too high, as most of them seemed to be, people don't take enough supplement to bring the level up to where it should be.

This site will give you the latest government recalls. In fact, the official governnment site is here.

Another show of less than perfect are 'seconds'. A few years ago, in Vermont, one could find a deli or market that only stocked Ben and Jerry's seconds. Sometimes it was called a second because too much chocolate had been dumped in...those of us who knew what the seconds were usually preferred them not only because of the cheaper price!

Most craftspeople have seconds for sale. Astute people can find 'almost' perfect stuff that keeps them very happy. I had a jewelry teacher once who insisted (though I didn't try to follow her suggestion) to make things purposely less than perfect so that viewers would see that they were hand made.