Continuing the PR push for struggling Gulf Coast seafood, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said yesterday the President was looking forward to eating seafood during his upcoming vacation
The Senate recently updated its lobbying disclosure database with second quarter spending information. The documents available through the database reveal which organizations are spending what–and where their money is
The Senate has reached a “tentative agreement” on the pending safety bill and staff will be briefed on the language Thursday, a staffer told The Hill yesterday.
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The New Orleans Saints and the Obama administration tried to boost the battered Gulf seafood image yesterday during a ceremony to honor the team’s Superbowl victory.
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House lawmakers are pressing Kellogg’s Co. for more information on the company’s recent 28 million box recall of Corn Pops, Honey Smacks, Fruit Loops, and Apple Jacks cereals.
As waters reopen for fishing in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, BP’s chief operating officer Doug Suttles offered a public confidence boost for the local seafood industry
Linda Rivera, a Reno, Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past fifteen months, has been promised the Senate
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a longtime advocate for more stringent food safety laws, introduced a bill yesterday with the “goal of completely eradicating the dangerous Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he hopes to pass pending food safety legislation and the child nutrition reauthorization, two major food bills, before August recess.
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Eric Schlosser, author of best-selling Fast Food Nation and co-producer of Oscar-nominated Food, Inc., penned an op-ed in last Sunday’s New York Times urging the Senate to move on
When Beans Were Bullets, an exhibit of food and agriculture posters from World Wars I and II is on display at USDA’s National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland through