Last Friday I spoke at the Government Accountability Project Food Integrity Campaign conference. During the lunch break, food safety attorney and advocate Bill Marler hosted a press event with 10
Supporters of small family farms and locally grown food in Oregon are backing three bills–the Farm Direct Bill, the Family Farm Act, and HB 2872–that address poultry processing.
An independent cattlemen’s group is charging its larger competitor with using federal “Beef Checkoff” marketing dollars to illegally influence government actions and policies.
The Billings, MT-based R-CALF
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food safety programs are not treated equally in the $3.7 trillion budget plan released by
The frontier in the fight against childhood obesity should be pushed back to toddlers and preschoolers, a new study suggests. The researchers found that kids ages 3-5 already have
If it helps reduce the inflammation in the arthritic knees of racehorses, a little in your yogurt or other dairy product couldn’t hurt, could it?
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is having a little disagreement with a Fort Lauderdale seafood processing facility over how to control the potential for deadly botulism.
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Whoever said any publicity is good publicity has not gone through what the Sunflower Market grocery store chain has gone through in the Phoenix area in just a couple weeks.
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles from CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Legally used in certain countries outside the United States as a prescription medical treatment for asthma in humans and airway obstruction in horses, clenbuterol, classified as a beta2-adrenergic agonist,
President Obama will release his 2012 budget today, a critical part of the heated debate about how to fund the federal government and deal with rising national debt.
As Steve
Last week I opted to dispense with sharing some more good news about Food Safety News in order to share another of my solutions for solving a food safety problem.