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Consumer Reports warns that tara flour isn’t safe and should be avoided

By News Desk on July 23, 2022

Daily Harvest CEO Rachel Drori admits that her company has identified tara flour as the cause of more than 470 reported illnesses.

Tara flour comes from the seeds of tara trees which are native to…

Continue Reading Consumer Reports warns that tara flour isn’t safe and should be avoided

Senators ask FDA leaders if food safety is a priority at the agency

By Coral Beach on July 21, 2022

The question members of a Senate subcommittee wanted answered by FDA officials involved how to make food safety a priority at the agency. The FDA commissioner said much of the answer would come out when…

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Public action groups call for separate food arm at FDA to streamline food safety

By Coral Beach on July 14, 2022

Consumer groups continue to call for faster and more efficient work from FDA on a variety of topics including heavy metals in baby food and the recent outbreak of cronobacter from infant formula.

The advocacy…

Continue Reading Public action groups call for separate food arm at FDA to streamline food safety
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Salmonella contamination not unusual in chicken

By News Desk on July 1, 2022

One-third of samples tested by Consumer Reports showed Salmonella contamination of ground chicken, including product from one of the nation’s largest producers.

The investigation by the non-profit consumer watchdog group included testing of 75 samples…

Continue Reading Salmonella contamination not unusual in chicken
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U.S. representative livid about new information in infant formula crisis

By Coral Beach on June 10, 2022

A member of Congress and consumer groups are expressing shock and asking hard questions about reports of additional infant deaths attributed to baby formula from Abbott Nutrition.

Following a report on Wednesday citing a Food…

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Advocates want answers from feds on infant formula outbreak and shortage; Congress, Biden act to ease situation

By Coral Beach on May 20, 2022

The shortage of infant formula and the food safety reason behind it are front and center for groups like Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group, which are calling on Congress to take action.

Representatives…
Continue Reading Advocates want answers from feds on infant formula outbreak and shortage; Congress, Biden act to ease situation

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It’s time for Congress to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging

By Guest Contributor on May 11, 2022

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By Brian Ronholm Director of Food Policy at Consumer Reports, and Liz Hitchcock Director at Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

The next time you order takeout at a favorite restaurant, there is a…
Continue Reading It’s time for Congress to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging

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Consumers, USDA, industry, scientists and voters all say it’s time to make poultry safer

By Guest Contributor on April 4, 2022

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By Mitzi D. Baum and James Kincheloe 

 The recent media coverage and public outcry over illnesses and two infant deaths associated with recalled powdered infant formula due to Cronobacter contamination is the …

Continue Reading Consumers, USDA, industry, scientists and voters all say it’s time to make poultry safer

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Questions loom as FDA remains quiet on investigation into infant formula outbreak

By Coral Beach on March 5, 2022

Parents, consumer groups, and a congresswoman want to know why it took the FDA months to begin investigations into infant formula after learning of the beginning of a cronobacter outbreak that has seen at least…
Continue Reading Questions loom as FDA remains quiet on investigation into infant formula outbreak

Groups petition FDA to restrict bisphenol A in food packaging for harmful effects

By News Desk on January 28, 2022

A coalition of physicians, scientists, and public health and environmental organizations Thursday sent a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration calling on the agency to rescind its approvals for bisphenol A (BPA) in…
Continue Reading Groups petition FDA to restrict bisphenol A in food packaging for harmful effects

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