There used to be nothing like a good conspiracy theory. As one who read and collected about 60 books on the Kennedy assassination before going cold turkey on the subject,
Food safety legislation that had picked up steam in the wake of a massive egg recall has hit a major snag. On the Senate floor Thursday, Majority Leader Harry Reid
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says he will hold up the pending food safety bill unless Democrats find a way to pay for the measure.
With time running out in the
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a bill Monday aimed at holding violators of food safety standards “accountable for their crimes.”
The legislation, dubbed the Food Safety Accountability Act, follows a
According to congressional investigators, Wright County Egg, the Iowa company at the center of a half billion egg recall tied to more than 1,500 cases of Salmonella, had received
Iowans are so concerned about their state Secretary of Agriculture that the office is directly elected, and now the half billion recall of Iowa eggs may scramble that election.
Democratic
The Congressional panel investigating the recent recall of 550 million eggs tied to a multistate Salmonella outbreak has moved its food safety hearing, originally planned for today, to next week.
One in four scientists and inspectors at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration surveyed by the Union of Concerned Scientists say they have personally experienced
As the headlines about Gulf seafood safety have become increasingly skeptical, the White House and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are upping their effort to boost the image of
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, yesterday asked committee chairman Ed Towns (D-NY) to hold a hearing “on the coordination–or
Food & Water Watch, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group and active proponent of the pending food safety legislation announced its support for an amendment to exempt certain farmers and processors