In response to media reports that Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) insistence on a controversial bisphenol-A (BPA) ban is holding up the pending food safety bill, Congressman John Dingell (D-MI)
Food safety and public health advocates are ramping up pressure on lawmakers to move stalled food safety legislation as the Senate only has a few weeks left to act before
Making law can be lot like a Space Shuttle launch.
One minute it’s “Velocity 22 hundred 57 feet per second…Altitude 4.3 nautical miles…Downrange distance 3 nautical
Poll Puts Pressure on Senate Majority Leader to Schedule Food Safety Bill for a Vote
Eighty-two percent of Nevada voters say they support the food safety legislation pending in the
President Obama issued a public statement yesterday in support of the pending Senate food safety bill, the first time the president has publicly pressed for U.S. Food and Drug
Author Eric Schlosser Films Action Alert for Food Safety Bill, As Timing in Senate Remains Uncertain
Consumers Union (CU) is adding some star power to their food safety advocacy efforts.
The landscape for food safety is going through some of the most significant changes ever in the context of legislative action, regulatory enforcement, consumer wariness, and industry accountability. With these
As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks a comprehensive vision for food safety and should change its approach to protect the food supply, says a new report by
Last Thursday, the Senate passed the Wall Street reform bill, handing President Obama his second major legislative victory of the year. The contentious bill, which narrowly passed though the Senate
As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with Jim O’Hara, director of the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University, on food safety lessons from
A controversial amendment proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban the use of bisphenol-A, otherwise known as BPA, in food and drink containers continues to threaten the broad, bipartisan