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Tell Congress: Repeal the DARK Act!
The Senate passed a bill on July 14 that nullified Vermont's GMO labeling law, and President Obama signed it on July 31. The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to back Senator Richard Blumenthal's effort to repeal it.
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Advocates Criticize Changes to Safety Measures for Catfish Imports
Food & Water Watch wrote to USDA warning that new procedures for deciding which foreign facilities may export catfish to the U.S. could let exporters that fall short of American safety standards ship anyway, and asked the agency to open a public comment period.
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Congressional GMO Voters Guide: Who Sold Out the “Right to Know”
The Cornucopia Institute graded every member of Congress on GMO labeling and transparency votes. In the House, 88 members earned an A or B while 197 scored zero and received an F; in the Senate, 29 earned an A or B and 47 got failing grades.
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Homeopathic Teething Tablets and Gels: FDA Warning - Risk to Infants and Children
FDA warns that homeopathic teething tablets and gels may pose a risk to infants and children, citing adverse events including seizures reported since a 2010 alert. The products are not FDA-evaluated for safety or efficacy, and the agency tells consumers to stop using and discard them.
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FDA Investigates Sammy’s Milk Baby Food (Infant Formula)
FDA warns consumers not to buy or use Sammy's Milk Baby Food powdered infant formula, saying Graceleigh, Inc. did not make it under federal infant formula rules. The product was never tested for Cronobacter and may lack adequate iron; all of it is being recalled.
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What Has Monsanto Done to Argentina's Children? Newsletter 092916 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter about “Transgenic Wars,” a film on the Argentine village of Avia Terai, where residents blame Roundup sprayed on surrounding GMO soy for birth defects and illness, plus an alert on EPA's handling of atrazine.
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Proposed mergers by biotechnology firms could result in cotton seed price surge
A Texas A&M Agricultural and Food Policy Center study, presented at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, projects the proposed Dow-DuPont and Monsanto-Bayer mergers would sharply raise cotton seed prices and slightly raise corn and soybean seed prices, potentially reaching consumers.
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Two of the worst corporate criminals headed to the altar - Newsletter 091716 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter on the $66-billion Bayer-Monsanto deal, citing a Wall Street Journal report that biotech seed dominance is under threat as farmers such as Ohio's Joe Logan drop costly biotech seed to save money.
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Are you eating 100-percent natural weed killer?
An Organic Consumers Association appeal seeking $200,000 by September 16 to fund lawsuits against food companies over misleading labels, including a new suit against egg producer Handsome Brook Farm and claims about glyphosate in cereal and granola bars.
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No Bacon Day
Cool Foods is launching a No Bacon Day campaign on September 3, International Bacon Day, to support pig sanctuaries and promote its pinto-bean Vegi Bacon Bits. Founder Tom Mosk cites the calories, saturated fat and cholesterol in pork bacon.
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Tell Jessica Alba and Honest Co.: No Fake Organic Baby Formula - Newsletter 083116 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association alert asking readers to press Jessica Alba's Honest Co. over infant formula labeled “Premium Organic” that OCA says contains synthetic ingredients barred under federal law. OCA sued in April and the case is still in court.
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Another GE Apple? No thanks! newsletter 083016 from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety urges readers to tell USDA to reject a GE Fuji Arctic Apple, saying the agency relies on the same incomplete studies used for the first two varieties. It warns that masking browning could hide apples that are no longer fresh.
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OCA Sues General Mills-Owned Nature Valley - newsletter 082516 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association, Beyond Pesticides and Moms Across America sued General Mills, saying independent lab testing found glyphosate in Nature Valley granola bars sold as made with 100% natural whole grain oats. The newsletter also criticises Tyson Foods' lobbying.
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Monsanto + Bayer = Trouble - from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety asks readers to sign a letter urging the Justice Department to block the proposed Monsanto-Bayer merger and two similar deals, which it says would leave four corporations controlling 73 percent of the world seed and pesticide market.
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FDA to accept public comments on endocrine-disrupting phthalates in food until Sept. 16.
EWG urges readers to tell the FDA to get phthalates out of food before the comment deadline, which an editor's note says may be Sept. 19 rather than Sept. 16. The plasticizers leach from packaging and vinyl tubing and are linked to genital defects in boys, asthma and endometriosis.
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Burger King: Say NO to GE Apples
A petition urges Burger King to keep genetically engineered Arctic Apples out of its meals. Campaigners call the non-browning apple unnecessary, warn that masking the browning signal could hide fruit that is no longer fresh, and note FDA does no pre-market safety testing.
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Food & Water Watch Denounces Approval of ChemChina-Syngenta Mega-Merger
Executive director Wenonah Hauter says the $43 billion takeover, waved through by the secretive CFIUS panel, will consolidate power over farmers, raise their input prices and narrow seed choices. She urges the Justice Department to reject the proposed Dow-DuPont merger.
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