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Catfish was on the menu for meetings with top USDA food safety officials

Posted on October 18, 2018

Carmen Rottenberg and Paul Kiecker, USDA’s top food safety executives, met last Sept. 4 with Corey Rosenbusch and Lowell Randel of the Global Cold Chain Alliance about export issues.
Rosenbusch and Randel’s…
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Publisher’s Platform: Thanks to Kelly, Paul, Angela, Merrill, Gabrielle, Peter and Ken

By Bill Marler on February 1, 2014

For those who have not walked the halls of Congress trying to get politicians to pay attention to real issues, you may not appreciate what seven of your fellow citizens did this past week. However,…
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Behind Closed Doors: Who's Taking Meetings with FDA on Food Safety?

By Michele Simon on December 4, 2013

When President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law in January 2011, it was considered a long-fought, but significant and bipartisan, victory to update the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authority and…
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Monsanto Is a Lobbying Powerhouse

By Dan Flynn on March 3, 2012

Monsanto was not on mailing list used by U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter to ask food businesses about their policies on antibiotics in food, presumably because the St. Louis company does not have anything to do…

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Slicing Into Food Industry’s $40 Million Lobbying Efforts

By Dan Flynn on March 3, 2012

The food industry — including dairy, livestock, poultry and eggs and all food processing — spent about $40 million on lobbying the federal government last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Yet more…

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Letter From The Editor: Lobbyists

By Dan Flynn on September 26, 2010

Food Safety News has not yet written the obituary for S. 510, the food safety bill.

Any bill that might garner as many as 90 votes in the 100-member U.S. Senate cannot be called dead…

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Millions Spent Lobbying Food Safety

By Laurel Curran on August 11, 2010

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 focused.

The Senate Website is set…

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After Spinach Death, Family Takes Action

By Helena Bottemiller on October 4, 2009

Polly and Ken Costello of Bellevue, Nebraska, daughter and son-in-law of Ruby Trautz, who lost her life to severe E. coli complications after eating contaminated Dole Spinach, will travel to Washington on Tuesday to raise…

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