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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GMO labeling's biggest moment ever
The Organic Consumers Association asks for donations to fund a get-out-the-vote push for Oregon's Measure 92, saying it has already sent $750,000 and wants to wire another $20,000 as polls show the race neck-and-neck heading into the final weekend.
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Frankenfoods Fight at the Crossroads - newsletter 103114 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association urges readers to back Oregon's Measure 92 and Colorado's Initiative 105 on mandatory GMO labeling, noting that seed and food companies have spent over $30 million against them, and argues a win in either state would be decisive.
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Make calls to pass GMO Labeling today! Free Talk from the Seeds of Doubt Conference
The Institute for Responsible Technology's Food Policy Fund asks readers to phone voters in Oregon and Colorado ahead of GMO labeling votes, and links to Robyn O'Brien's Seeds of Doubt Conference talk, free to watch through November 4.
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Do You Remember these McDonald's Moments?
A run through episodes McDonald's would rather not revisit, opening with the 1980s McLibel affair, when the chain answered a London activist leaflet by hiring spies to infiltrate the groups behind it and then suing the activists for libel.
Legal Actions
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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Is the Boycott Strategy Working? newsletter 10272014 from Organic Consumers Association
As Oregon and Colorado voters neared decisions on GMO labeling measures, opponents had raised $16.5 million and $14.3 million, with Monsanto giving about $8.8 million and DuPont Pioneer $3 million. The essay asks whether boycotting their brands is working.
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Who is funding the anti-GMO labeling side in Colorado?
Ten corporations including Monsanto, DuPont, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola supplied more than $13 million of the $14.3 million spent to defeat Colorado's Proposition 105 on GMO labeling. The Right to Know Colorado campaign says it has raised under $1 million, mostly in small gifts.
Law & Regulations
Trade Experts to Convene Reporters’ Briefing on WTO’s Rejection of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL)
A media advisory for an October 23 teleconference at which Food & Water Watch, the National Farmers Union, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and the U.S. Cattlemen's Association will discuss the WTO's ruling on country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork.
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Is the Boycott Strategy Working? - newsletter 10-23-2014 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association essay tallies the money against GMO labeling measures in Oregon and Colorado, $16.5 million and $14.3 million, with Monsanto giving about $8.8 million, and asks whether its boycott of Big Food's organic and natural brands has worked.
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Organic Trade/Lobby Group Creates "Trojan Horse" to Represent Family Farmers
The Cornucopia Institute says the Organic Trade Association's new Farmer Advisory Council and discounted memberships for smaller family farmers aim to soften its image as a corporate lobby. Codirector Mark Kastel ties the move to OTA's push for a checkoff estimated at $40 million a year.
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The clock is ticking on GE labeling
The Center for Food Safety Action Fund asks volunteers to phone Oregon voters in the final 13 days before the vote on Measure 92, the GE food labeling initiative. Opponents have spent over $10 million, making it the most expensive ballot measure in state history.
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"Organic" fish farmed in the ocean? No thanks
Center for Food Safety urges readers to tell USDA not to certify ocean-based fish farms as organic, arguing in its report Like Water and Oil that pollutants flowing through open-water pens cannot be controlled and that feeding farmed fish wild-caught fish breaks organic rules.
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New Film “Second Opinion” Exposes the Truth About a 40-Year Long Cover-Up of Laetrile Cancer Treatment
Dr. Mercola introduces Eric Merola's documentary Second Opinion, which argues Memorial Sloan Kettering's board buried its own positive findings on Laetrile in the 1970s once supporting the compound became unprofitable and publicly unpopular.
Advisories
Fresh and Frozen Seafood: Selecting and Serving it Safely
FDA guidance on buying and handling seafood safely: choose fish kept refrigerated or on a thick bed of unmelting ice, check that the flesh is firm and shiny and the eyes clear, avoid anything smelling fishy, sour or ammonia-like, and look for tags on live shellfish.
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Gov't Failed To Warn About Fluoride Harm To Black Community
Fluoride Action Network says documents show US health officials knew black children in Grand Rapids had twice as much dental fluorosis as others, yet never warned the black community. A 1962 Public Health Service memo raised the question, and no change followed.
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Taking Down Monsanto. And while We're at It, Dow, too. - Newsletter 10-15-2014 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association's newsletter tallies Monsanto's $156 million quarterly loss and $90 million West Virginia payout, then pledges another $150,000 to Oregon's Measure 92 GMO labeling campaign, polling 49% to 44% with 7% undecided.
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It's tomorrow: Healthy kitchen secrets for the busy person!
The Institute for Responsible Technology promotes a free Healthy Kitchen Power Hour run by John and Ocean Robbins of the Food Revolution Network, starting tomorrow, with registrants also receiving the pair's Healthy Kitchen Guidebook of recipes and stocking tips.
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