North Carolina’s 5-year-old Property Protection Act, the first state law to use civil action rather than criminal law, to discourage undercover animal welfare investigations, contains unconstitutional elements.
Chief Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, of the U.S.
Continue Reading North Carolina’s Property Protection Act violates 1st Amendment
Animal activist organizations want to conduct undercover investigations by gaining entry to the nonpublic areas of private property and collecting evidence of animal abuse in the form of audio or video recordings or other documentation.
Continue Reading Activists are now challenging civil statutes for spying on animal agriculture
PETA v. Joshua H. Stein, the North Carolina case involving a civil statute, is supposed to wrap up its discovery phase this month.
The case over the Tar Heel state’s 4-year-old Property Protection Act was
Continue Reading North Carolina’s ‘civil’ approach to ‘ag gag’ getting federal review
Following what a raw milk producer described as a visit during which she “met our cows,” State Rep. Michele Presnell introduced a bill in North Carolina to allow retail sales of unpasteurized milk in the
Continue Reading Bill would legalize retail raw milk sales, exempt smallest herds from safety regs
Laboratory test results show what local public health officials have suspected for a couple of weeks. Food served by church members to “thousands” of people was contaminated with bacteria that thrives when food is not
Continue Reading Church BBQ outbreak serves as food safety reminder for charitable events
The country hams that some say are the quintessential dish of the South became, during this past weekend, suspects in a deadly listeriosis outbreak.
Four people, three in Virginia and one in North Carolina, have
Continue Reading Multiple recalls to chase down ham responsible for Listeriosis outbreak in South
Just one day after public health officials urged customers of a Hardee’s restaurant in Charlotte, NC, to get vaccinated against Hepatitis A, almost 900 people had received the post-exposure treatment.
Mecklenburg County Public Health Director
Continue Reading Public comes out in force for Hepatitis A vaccinations in NC
The Mexico Viejo restaurant in Taylorsville, NC, about 60 miles north of Charlotte, remained open Friday after as many as 45 customers reported illnesses to the local health department.
Officials from the Alexander County Health
Continue Reading NC restaurant remains open after E. coli confirmed in customer
North Carolina’s three-year-old law permitting owners to collect monetary damages from individuals for “exceeding the scope of authorized access to property” was always expected to be the subject of judicial review.
The question has been
Continue Reading Something in PETA’s history vault helps get North Carolina law reviewed
Poppies International Inc. is recalling tubs of their “Delizza Belgian Custard Cream Mini Eclairs” after tests showed contamination by Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially deadly foodborne pathogen.
The recall covers all “Delizza Belgian Custard Cream Mini
Continue Reading Poppies recalls Delizza brand frozen mini eclaires for Listeria
B & H Foods in North Carolina is on notice from the FDA because the same strain of Listeria monocytogenes has been confirmed repeatedly during the past five years at its facilities.
“Based on FDA’s
Continue Reading Ruth’s salad maker warned for Listeria in production facility
