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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow? 'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Everything's Just Fin Research funded by seafood industry concludes that moms should eat fish		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 05 Oct 2007 A group of scientists affiliated with the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) announced conclusions yesterday that new moms and moms-to-be should eat at least 12 ounces of seafood per week to encourage wee ones' brain development. Federal agencies, which advise moms to consume no more than 12 ounces of seafood per week to reduce babies' exposure to ...
Topics: Department of Health and Human Services, food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, mercury, news, parenting, scientific research (all these topics)

More bitter chocolate What the choco-giants are up to.	Tom Philpott	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Ag, food, Food and Drug Administration, politics (all these topics)

Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines If you've shied away from spinach since last year's widespread E. coli outbreak, this should give you comfort: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued voluntary guidelines this week to help keep fresh-cut produce safe. What, the "voluntary" part gives you pause? Pshaw. Pointing out that voluntary guidelines for pro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach		05 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach Federal agents raided two produce plants in Salinas Valley, Calif., yesterday, as part of a criminal investigation into whether they violated food-safety and environmental laws in distributing E. coli-tainted spinach. The FBI and the Food and Drug Administration executed search warran ...
Topics: California, Federal Bureau of Investigation, food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

Spinach Cycle Latest E. coli outbreak should prompt rethink of industrial agriculture	Tom Philpott	21 Sep 2006	Victual Reality
For the ninth time since 1995, California's Salinas Valley -- the "nation's salad bowl" -- has been implicated in an E. coli scare involving salad greens. Avoid E. coli, buy L. coli. Photo: iStockphoto As I write this, no definitive explanation has emerged for the latest outbreak, this one involving pre-washed, bagged spinach. But while the feds haven't yet figured out how ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, California, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, organic food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Up the Arsenic Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet		05 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Up the Arsenic Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet You may be getting a significant dose of poison with your Chick'n Stix. Arsenic is a U.S. government-sanctioned supplement to chicken feed -- it's used to kill parasites and promote growth -- despite being a known carcinogen and being implicated in other illnesses. Although the average American's chicken consumption has incre ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news, toxics (all these topics)

Trans-fat riddle How can junk-food makers label goods laden with partically hydrogenated oil	Tom Philpott	13 Jan 2006	Gristmill

Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, health (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread The stakes in the debate over genetically modified (GM) food are about to jump significantly, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to complete a safety and nutrition review of wheat that has been genetically altered by biotech giant Monsanto. To date, GM crops have largely been used as animal feed and proc ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input	Shelley Smithson	30 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours?		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours? Genetically modified food could contain excessive amounts of dangerous compounds because of the government's failure to adequately regulate the production of such foods, according to a report being released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The report says the Food and Drug Administration made "obvious errors" in reviewing ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Measure for Measure		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Measure for Measure The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added its voice to those of the agriculture, biotechnology, and food-processing industries in opposing Oregon's ballot measure 27, which would require labeling of genetically modified foods sold in the state. In a letter sent Friday to Gov. John Kitzhaber (D), FDA Deputy Commissioner Lester Crawford said that GM foods "ar ...
Topics: business, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, green living, Oregon (all these topics)

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