Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
The contents of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act represent a
The Montana Public Health Association sent Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) a letter last week urging him to reconsider his amendments to the pending food safety bill. Earlier this month, Tester
There’s a new fight breaking out over the pending Senate food safety bill. An amendment proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban the use of bisphenol-A, otherwise known
As part of a series of workshops looking into the consolidation of agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced further details yesterday
More than 80 public health, environmental, agriculture, and organic food organizations are fighting to protect genetically modified (GM), or genetically engineered (GE) food labels.
The groups sent a letter Tuesday
In response to the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Inspector
General (OIG) report, which found that the agencies responsible for
monitoring veterinary drug, heavy metal,
Discussion on the link between antibiotic resistance in humans and the routine, subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production rolls on. For the past several weeks, congressional staff working
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) responded the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) recently released report on foodborne disease, which showed mixed results on food safety progress,
The food safety bill pending in the Senate has hit another speed bump. S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, will not be brought to the floor next week,
On Monday, thirty-two groups filed a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) urging both agencies to abandon plans to
An update on the pending food safety bill, with an outline of key amendments and discussion on the proposed exemption for small farms
Several amendments aimed at lessening the impact
After months of uncertainty, the Senate is expected to bring pending food safety legislation to the floor within the next week.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), has