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Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Produce Industry Could Love
(February 22, 2012)
Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon as an Unsafe Food Additive. Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review.
(February 7, 2012) Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) salmon and all of its components as a food additive. The groups’ legal petition contends that the current agency review [...]
Center for Food Safety Calls On EPA Not To Backpedal On Its Agreement To Track U.S. Animal Factories
(January 26, 2012) Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) disappointing failure to implement a 2010 settlement agreement it reached with environmental groups and [...]
Genetically Engineered Foods Will Not Feed The World: The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda
(January 25, 2012) The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion in a campaign to fund the development of genetically engineered (GE) crops in an attempt to address global hunger. The Gates Foundation has been widely [...]
FDA Bans Extra-Label Use Of Cephalosporin Drugs
(January 4, 2012) EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs in food-producing animals. Cephalosporin drugs are an essential tool in [...]
Consumer Safety Groups File First Lawsuit on Risks of Nanotechnology
(December 21, 2011) Concerned by the growing body of scientific reports cautioning against the unregulated use of nanotechnology in consumer products, a coalition of nonprofit consumer safety and environmental groups sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today. The case is the first lawsuit over the health and environmental risks of nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Nanotechnology is a powerful [...]
Coalition calls for FDA to halt approval of genetically engineered salmon
(December 20, 2011) Discovery of undisclosed infection of salmon eggs calls into question company claims that GE salmon are safe for the environment Yesterday afternoon a coalition of 11 food safety, environmental, consumer and fisheries organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) calling for a halt to its approval of a genetically engineered [...]
Senate Holds First Hearing on Genetically Engineered Fish
(December 15, 2011) Experts Warn GE Fish Too Risky to Environment. CFS Calls for New Framework, Mandatory Environmental Impact Statement The Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing at 10:30 AM today to discuss the environmental risks of genetically engineered (GE) fish, the first [...]
UPDATE! USDA Extends Comment Period Through April 27th: USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agent Orange” Corn