Revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) were denied this week by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA denied the 2017 petition submitted by Food & Water Watch and dozens of co-petitioners, including the Center for Food Safety.
Continue Reading EPA denies water quality petition for CAFOs
The Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act to give the Food and Drug Administration FDA new powers to investigate livestock feedlots and animal confinement facilities has been introduced in Congress.
Sponsored by Rep.Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, the legislation would allow investigations when such animal units are implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks.
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Continue Reading Bill to put animal confinement under FDA regulation for food safety purposes introduced in House
One in every five air samples in almond orchards adjacent to a poultry operation tested positive for E. coli during a two-year study published recently.
“Microorganisms Move a Short Distance into an Almond Orchard from an Adjacent Upwind Poultry Operation” comes as romaine growers continue to study the impact of
Continue Reading New study shows link between animal operation and orchard contamination
The pattern is well established. Bad things happen, and then good things happen as a result.
But, one man who is uniquely positioned to peer into the future with an informed eye doesn’t think the food industry or government need to wait for the next crisis to take the next
Continue Reading There’s good call for optimism, but grave reasons for concern remain
“Guarded optimism.” That’s the way Elston Grubaugh, general manager of the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District in the eastern Yuma, AZ, growing area describes his thoughts about the current romaine lettuce season.
In 2018, an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma area
Continue Reading Yuma romaine growers hopeful harvest will end without E. coli issues
With the publication of an Organic Dairy Scoreboard, added to its other consumer guides, the 10-year-old Cornucopia Institute is once again telling the public to do some homework before going to the grocery store, especially if their shopping list includes organic food.
A Wisconsin-based farm policy institute, the Cornucopia
Continue Reading Group ranks 160 organic milk brands; says USDA has failed consumers
Outbreak investigators say a cattle feedlot near a canal providing water to growing regions in Arizona is a key element in their hypothesis about the source of E. coli that contaminated romaine lettuce earlier this year.
The Food and Drug Administration has been investigating the outbreak, linked to romaine grown
Continue Reading FDA says cattle feedlot could be to blame for E. coli in canal water used on romaine
Privacy was the winner in a Court of Appeals case a few days ago in the 8th U.S. Circuit with a unanimous ruling against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 
A three-judge panel ruled against EPA’s practice of collecting private information from farmers and ranchers and then turning it over to
Continue Reading Farmers and ranchers get their privacy back
Hanor Companies is moving its headquarters to Enid, OK, from Wisconsin and several activists groups would like to see the pork producer pull out of North Carolina soon, too. They may get their wish as a federal court in North Carolina has decided to let a potentially game-changing lawsuit against
Continue Reading Activists get timely crack at making CAFOs report pollution data
