A petition drive asks the EPA to restrict neonicotinoid pesticides, citing USDA figures that beekeepers lost 44% of their colonies last year and research showing native bees declining too. Organizers plan a Keep the Hives Alive Tour ending in a June 22 rally at EPA.
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Lucky rapist gets merely six months in jail
A former university swimmer received a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in January 2015, though prosecutors had recommended six years. More than 100,000 people have signed a change.org petition seeking an election to remove the judge.
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FAN Investigation Reveals Pharmacies are Breaking Federal & State Laws
The Fluoride Action Network says 6,700 people signed its petition in 48 hours and asks for 10,000, backing a citizen petition that the FDA bar sales of unapproved fluoride supplements, which it says the largest pharmacies still sell in violation of federal and 17 states' laws.
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Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
A coalition of fishing, consumer and environmental groups, represented by the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice, sued the FDA over its approval of AquaBounty's fast-growing Atlantic salmon, saying the agency ignored risks to wild salmon and required no labeling.
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Now the Battle Really begins
A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal reporting that the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 14-6 to send the DARK Act to the Senate floor, and arguing the bill would block state GE labeling laws and leave only voluntary labeling at the federal level.
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Advocates Urge Senate to Reject DARK Act
Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter urges senators to reject a bill approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee that would bar states from requiring GMO labeling, calling anything short of mandatory on-package labeling unacceptable.
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The DARK Act is back
An EWG action alert asking readers to tell their senators to oppose the DARK Act, which the group says would strip states of the power to require GMO labels and make the voluntary labeling system permanent.
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Organic Stakeholders Sue USDA Over Allegedly Illegal Power Grab
A coalition of 15 organic producers and farmer, consumer, environmental and certification groups sued the USDA, saying it bypassed the customary public hearing and comment process when it changed how allowed synthetic and prohibited natural substances are reviewed.
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United States enters consent decree prohibiting illegal distribution of Luvena Prebiotic products
A federal judge entered a consent decree against Laclede Inc. and its president, barring distribution of unapproved or misbranded drugs and devices. The FDA said the company sold four Luvena Prebiotic vaginal products without approval despite repeated warnings.
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Federal judge approves consent decree with California dietary supplement maker
A federal judge signed a consent decree barring Health One Pharmaceuticals of City of Industry, California and owner Richard Yeh from selling products until they meet FDA supplement manufacturing rules, and ordering recall and destruction of goods made from September 2011 on.
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Ad for Gerber baby formula: Deceptively cute
The FTC says Gerber's ads for Good Start Gentle formula were deceptive: the product has not been shown to reduce the risk of most allergies, only possibly atopic dermatitis from milk allergy. The FDA had let Gerber raise that condition only in heavily qualified language.
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AquaBounty Fined for Repeated Environmental Violations on Genetically Engineered Salmon
Panamanian officials fined AquaBounty Technologies $9,500 for operating its genetically engineered salmon experiments in violation of environmental regulations. Food & Water Watch, Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth asked the FDA to end its review of the company's US application.
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Food & Water Watch Sues USDA to Stop the New Poultry Inspection System
Food & Water Watch sued in federal court to block USDA's New Poultry Inspection System, arguing that handing condemnation and reprocessing decisions to slaughter plant staff violates the 1957 Poultry Products Inspection Act, which assigns that work to federal inspectors.
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Producer of tainted dietary supplements sentenced in federal court
A Manhattan federal magistrate judge fined Balanced Health Products CEO Nikki Haskell $60,000 for distributing StarCaps, weight-loss pills advertised as all-natural that also contained the undeclared prescription diuretic bumetanide. She pleaded guilty in March 2014.
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FTC Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Agency Efforts to Combat Fraudulent and Deceptive Claims for Weight-Loss Products
FTC's Mary Engle told a Senate subcommittee that weight-loss claims defrauded more consumers than any other fraud type in the agency's latest survey, and that despite $2.4 billion in spending last year, little evidence shows pills alone bring lasting weight loss without diet change.
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Legal Petition: Public Interest Groups Challenge USDA Organic Power Grab
Twenty organic farm and consumer groups petitioned Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over changes to the National Organic Standards Board charter renewed on May 8, 2014, arguing they undercut duties Congress gave the board under the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act.
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It's Official. Big Food Sues Vermont
Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association sued in federal court to overturn Vermont's GMO labeling law. The Organic Consumers Association is raising money to defend it and to push an Oregon initiative, warning a loss would stall bills in 29 other states.
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Food & Water Watch Petitions USDA to Stop Allowing Imports of Beef Produced Under Privatized Inspection
Food & Water Watch petitioned USDA's inspection service to revoke the "equivalency" status of four meat inspection programs in Canada, Australia and New Zealand that let company employees replace government inspectors on food safety checks.
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