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Landmark Child Nutrition Bill Clears Senate

By Helena Bottemiller on August 6, 2010

The Senate unanimously approved child nutrition reauthorization yesterday, a big step forward for a bill fighting for time amidst a busy legislative agenda.

school-kids-eating-featured.jpgThe Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act reauthorizes federal child nutrition programs, sets nutritional

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Sen. Lincoln Leads Charge on Child Nutrition Bill

By Helena Bottemiller on July 30, 2010

Standing alongside key lawmakers, child nutrition advocates, and elementary students dressed as grapes, apples, carrots, and bananas, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) yesterday urged the Senate to pass the pending child nutrition reauthorization

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Lincoln Survives Heated Primary Runoff

By Helena Bottemiller on June 10, 2010

Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) defeated labor-backed Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter in a heated Democratic primary runoff Tuesday, bucking the notion that Lincoln might be the third Senate incumbent casualty

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Group Asks USDA, FDA to Move on Catfish

By Helena Bottemiller on June 8, 2010

In another act of the ongoing catfish regulatory drama, the advocacy group Food and Water Watch sent a letter yesterday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius recommending they work

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Will USDA’s Food Safety Agency Ever Have a Leader?

By Matthew Madia on June 7, 2010

Food Safety News reported that there is no timetable for moving the nomination of Elisabeth Hagen to the Senate floor. Hagen, currently the chief medical officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the…
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No Timeline for USDA Food Safety Nominee

By Helena Bottemiller on June 3, 2010

Though the Senate Agriculture Committee recently held a hearing to consider Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the Obama Administration’s nominee for Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the timeline for Hagen’s…
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Lincoln Pushes for USDA Catfish Inspections

By Helena Bottemiller on May 28, 2010

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is again pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin regulating catfish, an issue of great importance to catfish farmers in Arkansas struggling to compete with a…
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Ag Committee to Consider USDA Food Safety Nominee

By Helena Bottemiller on May 27, 2010

Today the Senate Agriculture Committee will take the first step in the confirmation process for Under Secretary for Food Safety, a post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that has been vacant for 19

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Critics: Child Nutrition Act Needs Boost

By Helena Bottemiller on March 30, 2010

After a series of USA Today exposes in 2009 found staggering gaps in school food safety, many in food policy circles thought food safety would be addressed in the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) reauthorization process

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Russian Food Claims Bogus, Senators Say

By Dan Flynn on January 19, 2010

Russia is making bogus food safety claims to curtail or eliminate American poultry, pork and beef imports, the two top agricultural leaders in the U.S. Senate charge in a letter to President Obama.

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