Seven well-known consumer groups acting together as the Safe Food Coalition are petitioning USDA’s Food Safety and inspection Service for a revised safe handling instruction label for meat, poultry and catfish. The petition calls upon FSIS to continue to require that labels include information about the potential risk of pathogenic
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CA Dairyman Fights FDA Over Ban on ‘Raw Butter’ Shipments
Mark McAfee, founder and president of Organic Pastures Dairy, has “lawyered up” before once again taking on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this time over the interstate ban on transporting raw butter. He has enlisted Gary Cox, general counsel to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, to represent him.
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FSIS Approves Chinese Plants for Poultry Processing
Four Chinese poultry processing plants have been approved to export cooked chicken to the U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has approved China’s export health certificate which demonstrates that poultry exported to the U.S. was raised and slaughtered in the U.S., Canada or Chile
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Petitions Urge Congressional Action on Antibiotics Legislation
Like many other bills introduced in Congress in recent years, movement on the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) and the Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act (PARA) has stagnated. Two weeks ago, Dr. Mark Hyman introduced a petition on Credo Mobilize to get Congress to pay attention to the
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California GMO Labeling Law Named Prop. 37
California’s Office of the Secretary of State announced on Monday that the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, also known as the GMO labeling initiative, will appear on voter ballots as Proposition 37 for the November 6 elections. If passed, Prop. 37 would make California the first state
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Letter From The Editor: Internet Petitions
Food safety is ultimately based on reasonable decisions that flow from science.
It’s probably not going to go well if we turn to electronic mob rule where only one side of a debate is passionately delivered to mostly like-minded adherents.
But that’s what we are doing in this new world
White House Turns Down Raw Milk Petition
The Obama administration delivered its official response last week to the 6,078 signors of a petition on WhiteHouse.gov who requested federal-level legalization of all raw milk sales. The response indicated that the White House continues to support the current regulation of raw milk sales, which allow states to determine legality
Online Petition Urges Action on E. coli Strains
The Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention has posted a petition on change.org pressing the government to move forward with a ban on six disease-causing strains of E. coli bacteria in meat.
” .. . while we have watched Europe suffer from a deadly E. coli outbreak that has
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Humane Animal Treatment Petition Filed
Last year, Ohio voters voted by a nearly 2-to-1 margin to amend its state constitution and create a Livestock Care Standards Board, made up of veterinarians and agriculture experts, to set animal care standards for the state.
Ohioans for Humane Farms, a state ballot committee sponsored by the the Humane
FDA Urged to Ban Poultry Waste in Feed
Consumers Unio
n, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and the Food Animals Concern Trust (FACT), a Chicago-based animal welfare organization, presented a petition signed by 37,000 people to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Friday asking the agency to ban the practice of feeding poultry waste to cattle.