Tagged with Food And Drug Administration 
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Calling for Real Reform
Food safety in the 21st century 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks agoJust when America thought it was safe to go back into the grocery store, another food outbreak wakes us up to the fact that there is something seriously wrong with its food safety system. This time it's Nestle Toll House cookie dough with E.coli, a treat that nearly every kid in America reaches for a few times a month during the summer. This is yet another reminder why it’s important to get the new food safety legislation, currently winding its way through Congress, right.
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Food safety: How local can you go? 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Consumers, farmers, and manufacturers alike all appear to be for a food safety bill, so the question is not whether a bill will be approved, but whether it will make our food safer.
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Three squares
Following USDA dietary guidelines can be hazardous to your health 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks agoJill Richardson flagged this op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle co-authored by a nutritional biochemist and a doctor. In their commentary, they indicate that current government dietary guidelines might be an eensy bit flawed:
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Who put the food companies in charge of food safety? We did. 6
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago -
More on the FDA’s bumbling role in the peanut-butter salmonella outbreak 3
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As evidence mounts of deadly bacteria from CAFO pigs, will the FDA and the USDA act? 0
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The EPA and FDA send last-minute gifts to the meat industry 0
Posted 11 months ago -
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
FDA draft report downplays mercury risk from fish 1
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Disease-y Does It
New study links BPA to heart disease and diabetes 0
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Consumers demand market rejection of food from cloned animals 9
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago -
Yes, They Can
Under pressure from Big Canned Tuna, FDA lax in mercury regulation 3
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Starting today the FDA will allow producers to use irradiation on lettuce and spinach 8
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BPA: A-OK?
Common chemical in food containers not a health threat, says FDA 8
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Latest health scare exposes a frayed food-safety net 1
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U.S. officials dither while antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains creep into our pork supply 10
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FDA warns of salmonella-infected tomatoes in the Southwest 1
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A Lung Time Coming
Ozone-depleting asthma inhalers being phased out 1
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‘Downergate’ reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing 12
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago -
Everything's Just Fin
Research funded by seafood industry concludes that moms should eat fish 2
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What the choco-giants are up to. 1
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago