Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all 50 states. And next Tuesday, the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee will hold a public hearing on state… Continue Reading
A fast-moving, but emotional civil trial pitting environmentalists against family farmers could end in the next day or two with a ruling by U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson in Baltimore. At issue is whether common practices for handling chicken manure violate the federal Clean Water Act. The trial, which Judge Nickerson is hearing without… Continue Reading
It’s been more than two years since a federal bench trial in Oklahoma over chicken industry practices ended, but that judge has yet to issue a ruling. Now a three-week bench trial is underway in Baltimore for the case of Waterkeeper Alliance Inc. v Alan and Kristin Hudson Farm et al. This one is also… Continue Reading
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley Tuesday signed a bill banning arsenic in poultry feed, making his state the first to have a law against the practice on the books. The new law, which takes effect Jan 1, prohibits the use, sale, or distribution of commercial feed containing arsenic and specifically mentions two Pfizer drugs that… Continue Reading
Maryland public health officials say lab tests confirmed Campylobacter jejuni bacteria in two unopened containers of unpasteurized milk from the Your Family Cow farm in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania health authorities have not yet announced the results of their tests, as the number of people who are sick after drinking milk from the raw milk dairy has… Continue Reading
Pennsylvania health authorities said Tuesday that the number of confirmed cases in an outbreak of Campylobacter infection has risen to 20 - 16 from that state and 4 from Maryland. All of the people who are sick had consumed unpasteurized milk from The Family Cow dairy in the Chambersburg area, according to a report in… Continue Reading
There now are 12 cases of Campylobacter infection among people who drank unpasteurized milk from a dairy in Chambersburg, PA, Pennsylvania health officials reported Monday. State health and agriculture investigators are awaiting results of tests later this week to see if they can help determine whether milk from the Family Cow farm is the cause… Continue Reading
Six people have been infected with Campylobacter in an outbreak linked to raw milk from a farm in Pennsylvania, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday. Three cases of campylobacteris have been reported in Pennsylvania and three in Maryland. All six infected individuals drank unpasteurized milk from the Family Cow dairy in… Continue Reading
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that Sungwon Inc of Columbia, Md., corporation, and the company’s president, Sang Ja Lee, have signed a consent decree of permanent injunction, which shuts down company operations. Prior to entry of the consent decree, the company manufactured and distributed ready-to-eat Asian food products, including kimchi (the fermented… Continue Reading
Eight people are confirmed to have Salmonella infections in an outbreak traced to a pancake breakfast in Thurmont, Maryland. Source of the illnesses is said to be contaminated sausage served at a March 5 church breakfast. The implicated sausage had been purchased at a 4-H “Country Butchering” event held on Jan. 27, according to the… Continue Reading
Baugher’s Orchard and Farm of Westminster, MD. has issued a voluntary recall of all its apple cider because of possible contamination. The unpasteurized cider is being investigated by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a possible source of seven E. coli O157:H7 infections. Three of the people sickened in the outbreak have… Continue Reading