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Reactions Vary to USDA’s Poultry Inspection Rule

By Lydia Zuraw on August 1, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture published the final rule of its Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection on Thursday, requiring all poultry processing plants to engage in additional microbiological testing and establishing the New Poultry Inspection…
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FDA Proposes Limit for Arsenic in Apple Juice

By Helena Bottemiller on July 15, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed a limit for arsenic in apple juice, two years after testing by Dr. Oz and Consumer Reports spurred widespread consumer concern about the presence of the…
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The Best of Food Safety: Consumer Organizations

By News Desk on February 20, 2013

This week, Food Safety News is acknowledging leaders who help keep our food supply safe.  Today we celebrate consumer organizations.  In the days ahead we’ll celebrate leaders in non-government organizations, the food industry and the…
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Food & Water Watch Criticizes USDA on Australia's 'Privatized Meat Inspection'

By News Desk on January 3, 2013

Food & Water Watch is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to review its decision to allow the newly privatized meat inspection system of Australia to be considered equivalent to U.S. inspection, according to…
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Food for Thought: Q&A with Tony Corbo

By Olivia Marler on May 30, 2012

Tony Corbo is the senior lobbyist for the food campaign at Food & Water Watch. He is responsible for food-related legislative and regulatory issues that come before Congress and the Executive Branch. Tony has extensive

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Chicken Council Denies Request for Access to Plants

By Helena Bottemiller on April 16, 2012

The National Chicken Council has denied Food & Water Watch lobbyist Tony Corbo’s request to work in a HACCP Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP) poultry plant to better understand how the new program works.

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Consumer Advocate Seeks Poultry Inspection Gig

By Helena Bottemiller on April 12, 2012

After sharply criticizing a proposal to expand the HACCP Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP) pilot to more poultry plants, Food & Water Watch is asking for unfettered access to a HIMP plant to better evaluate

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House Panel Debates New Poultry Inspection Rule

By Helena Bottemiller on March 9, 2012

A proposal to reform poultry inspection that would shift quality and deflect oversight away from U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors toward the companies processing the birds has come under heavy criticism by Washington, DC-based Food

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New Primer on GE Foods from Food & Water Watch

By Dan Flynn on October 3, 2011

A new 25-page background paper from the environmental group Food & Water Watch is long on information supporting its views on the science and politics surrounding genetically engineered food.   

But the extensively footnoted paper

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Arsenic-Laced Apple Juice Flowing From China?

By Dan Flynn on July 22, 2011

To the long list of things that worry Food & Water Watch, add a river of apple juice coming from China and the high arsenic levels found in that flow. That combo was enough to…
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