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Donald Trump and his acolyte, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.”
They lied.
* RFK Jr. fired every single member of FDA’s media communications team,
The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to advance its agricultural funding bill, which, if approved, could reduce the impact of some of the provisions sought by the president.
The bill
The FDA is delaying implementation of a rule that would require food companies to print nutritional information on the front labels of their products.
The proposed rule was developed by
Eighty-four members of Congress have written to President Trump expressing concerns about his actions regarding the CDC and USDA that will negatively impact the nation’s ability to ensure that
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For nearly a decade and a half, food safety advocates like me have recited CDC’s 2011 foodborne illness estimates: 3,000 deaths. 128,000 hospitalizations. 48 million illnesses
They are not the last cowboy song but they are likely the final full pardons from the 45th President of the United States.
And they are being forgiven for breaking
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Despite what you might think, America’s broken campaign finance system is about more than expensive ads flooding your screen and glossy mailers
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President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic is a further threat to the health of the women and men who produce our food.
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is getting a new top administrative officer. Paul Kiecker, who joined the agency in 1988 as a food inspector, is succeeding
Consumer Reports Monday announced the appointment of former USDA deputy undersecretary Brian Ronholm as director of food policy for the 80-year old non-profit organization.
“Mr. Ronholm will lead Consumer Reports’
American Agriculture is letting the U.S. Senate know that 68 months is long enough to go without a USDA under secretary for food safety.
Ten of the nation’s
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Tomorrow some of the fuzzy math related to the government’s operational status will come into clear focus for many so called non-essential federal employees when they don’t
