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Testimony by CFS Organic Policy Director Lisa J. Bunin, PhD to the National Organic Standards Board by Lisa J. Bunin, PhD, CFS Organic Policy Director, regarding ocean-based fish farming, compost, gellan gum and whole agar flour

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April 29th, 2014

Testimony of Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D. to the National Organic Standards Board, San Antonio, Texas

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September 26th, 2013

Testimony by CFS attorney Lori Ann Burd to the Oregon State Legislature Joint Interim Committee on Special Session, in opposition to the inclusion of SB 633 language on preemption of local laws regulating agriculture in the tax and pension package

July 30th, 2013

| GE Food Labeling

CFS Testifies Before New York State Assembly about GE Labeling Law

July 15th, 2013

Testimony by CFS science policy analyst Bill Freese on bill 2491, a bill that would allow Kauai County (HI) to govern the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms on the island.

April 10th, 2013

| Aquaculture

CFS testimony to the National Organic Standard Board regarding "organic" net-pen aquaculture

April 10th, 2013

| Food Safety

| GE Food Labeling

Testimony by Debbie Barker, CFS International Program Director, to the High Level Regulatory Cooperation Forum On Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) regarding the need to protect food safety standards and GE food labeling in TIPP negotiations.

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September 20th, 2011

| Animal Cloning

Testimony of Jaydee Hanson to the USDA National Organic Program on Use of Cattle Pedigrees to Track and Exclude Cloned Animals from Organic Production

September 20th, 2011

| Animal Cloning

Testimony of Jaydee Hanson to the USDA National Organic Program on tracing cattle clones in organic production

March 15th, 2011

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| Food & Climate

Biodiversity Impacts of Biofuels: Focus on Ethanol from Corn. Presentation by Bill Freese, CFS Science Policy Analyst to the California Air Resources Board regarding how America's biofuels policy encouraging conversion of corn to ethanol is harming our environment and doing nothing to stop global warming.

October 27th, 2010

Oral Remarks to the National Organic Standards Board Materials Committee Guidance Document on Nanotechnology

September 30th, 2010

Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings on the issue of herbicide-resistant superweeds created by unregulated cultivation of genetically engineered, Roundup Ready crops. CFS science policy analyst Bill Freese gave testimony and responded to follow up questions at the hearings.

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September 21st, 2010

| GE Fish

USDA transcript of the public hearing on the labeling of food made from AquAdvantage Salmon

September 19th, 2010

| GE Fish

CFS testimony at the VMA Committee Hearing Regarding GE Salmon

September 22nd, 2009

CFS's Lisa Bunin, PhD, testifies at the US Department of Agriculture Marketing Service Hearing on the proposed National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement