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Liquid Mercury Found in Greatwall Lunchmeat

A consumer complaint led to the July 20 discovery of liquid mercury in a can of Greatwall brand Chopped Pork and Ham by the Center for Food Safety in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong distributor of the canned...

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Hong Kong Studies Cuisines Popular With Visitors

Hong Kong gets 30 million visitors a year, and they remain in the city for an average of 3.2 nights.   Most of those visitors try Chinese regional cuisines sometime during their visit. Because the food...

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New Lawsuit Challenges USDA Approval of GE Alfalfa

As promised, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Friday, contending the agency erred when it allowed genetically...

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Radioactive Oatmeal Found in Hong Kong Supermarket

Low-level radioactivity was discovered in a packaged oats product from Japan on sale at a retail outlet in Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental...

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Obama Administration Sued for Delay of FSMA Implementation

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget were sued this week for the months-long delay in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act. President...

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FSMA Delay Spurs Curious Partnerships and Regulation Pleas

In an industry traditionally anxious to be self policing and oppose regulation, the tide has turned. The first evidence of this was in 2006 after the large E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to spinach,...

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FDA’s Excuses to Court on Food Safety Rule Delays Are Unconvincing

The saga of the missing FDA food safety regulations continues with a new government filing in a lawsuit challenging FDA’s failure to promulgate regulations implementing three critical programs that...

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FDA Petitioned to Lower Ractopamine Limits for Meat, Review Health Impacts

Animal rights and food safety groups are petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately lower the allowed residue limits for ractopamine — a controversial drug used to boost growth...

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Court May Not Have Power to Hasten FSMA Implementation, Judge Says

The parties suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its failure to meet several deadlines laid out in the Food Safety Modernization Act got discouraging news at a hearing last week when a...

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Ridding Schools of Fast Food, Junk Food, and Soda Pushers

With the passage of the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010, in addition to improving school meals, Congress required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to update nearly nonexistent nutrition...

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Elizabeth Kucinich to Lead Policy at Center for Food Safety

Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Democrat from Ohio and two-time presidential contender, will join the Center for Food Safety as director of policy “to address...

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Center for Food Safety Lists ‘Food Industry Front Groups’

After a 40-year absence, enemies lists are making a comeback in Washington D.C. The ordinarily mild-mannered Center for Food Safety (CFS) Tuesday put out a list of what it called “food industry front...

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Best Public Relations Money Can Buy – A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups

Last month, the International Food Information Council Foundation released the third edition of its report: Food Biotechnology: A Communicator’s Guide to Improving Understanding. What sounds like a...

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Court Extends Deadline for FSMA Rules

The Center for Food Safety’s tug-of-war with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the agency’s delayed food safety rules continued last week as a judge ruled that FDA had more time to come up...

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Target and Other Retailers Reject GE Salmon as FDA Nears Decision on Approval

Target Corporation has signed on to a pledge to not sell genetically engineered salmon in its department stores nationwide, joining nearly 60 other grocery chains such as Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and...

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Yakima Dairies’ Agreement With EPA Is On, But So Is Federal Trial

A newly nominated federal judge ruled Friday that he wants to hear more about dairies in Washington State’s Yakima Valley that may be contributing to groundwater contamination, and he will do so at a...

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FDA Must Complete FSMA Rules by Mid-2015, Judge Says

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must publish all of the regulations required under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act by June 30, 2015, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Phyllis Hamilton of...

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Judge Says No More FDA Extensions on FSMA Deadlines

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may no longer extend deadlines on releasing policies set forth by the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, according to a ruling by a judge in the U.S. District...

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FDA Orders Environmental Impact Statement on FSMA’s Produce Rule

The produce rule – one of seven specific regulations called for in the Food Safety Modernization Act – is first going to be subjected to a full-blown Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before it...

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FDA to Withdraw Approvals for Arsenic in Animal Feed

The Food and Drug Administration responded Monday to a four-year-old petition from the Center for Food Safety and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, stating that the agency was in the...

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