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What Are Monsanto and Big Food Hiding?
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Association seeking $55,000 more by June 30 to defend Vermont's GMO labeling law against the June 12 lawsuit by Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, and to back an Oregon labeling initiative.
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Trying to Convince Chickens to Vote for Colonel Sanders: OTA Knows What's Best for Producers
The Cornucopia Institute says the Organic Trade Association is robo-calling thousands of organic farmers during spring planting to promote an organic check-off program. OTA estimates the assessment would raise $40 million; creating it requires a two-thirds vote of industry participants.
Advisories
Weight loss: Fact vs. Fiction
The FTC warns that pills, powders, patches, belts and creams promising effortless weight loss mostly thin your wallet, and some may harm your health. It points readers to its Weight Loss Challenge game and says diet changes and exercise remain the keys.
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EcoFarm June E-News: Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee this Saturday and much more!
EcoFarm's June newsletter invites readers to the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee in Clovis, Calif. on June 21, with more than 60 varieties of organic stone fruit, and reports on a Pajaro Valley forum where growers shared water management practices during California's drought.
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Bees: canaries in the coal mine
A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal: the group is suing the EPA over its failure to protect pollinators from two bee-toxic pesticides, with Syngenta, Bayer and Valent intervening in the case. Donations are matched through the end of June.
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Free Link to GMO Mini-Summit Empowerment Package
A promotional notice from the Institute for Responsible Technology offering a free link to the GMO Mini-Summit Empowerment Package to anyone who signs up for its online GMO speaker training with Jeffrey Smith.
Legal Actions
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.
Advisories
USDA Food Safety Tips for Areas Affected by Severe Weather
FSIS issued food safety guidance for Midwest and Great Plains areas hit by tornadoes, high winds, hail and flash floods: keep thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer at 40F and 0F or lower, and freeze water in quart bags beforehand to help keep food cold during an outage.
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"My Medicines" ... This Brochure Can be a Lifesaver
The FDA's Office of Women's Health offers a free My Medicines brochure with a chart for recording prescriptions, doses and refills. Coral Thomas of Clarksville, Tennessee credits the filled-out card in her purse with helping doctors adjust her care after a heart attack at 66.
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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.
Law & Regulations
FDA to Reopen Comment Period on Reportable Food Registry ANPR
The FDA is reopening for 60 more days the comment period on its advance notice of proposed rulemaking for FSMA amendments to the Reportable Food Registry, after a request for an extension. Comments open June 18, 2014 at regulations.gov under docket FDA-2013-N-0590.
Advisories
NIH SENIOR HEALTH: Gov offers info on quitting smoking for older adults
The new Quitting Smoking for Older Adults topic offers videos, worksheets, interactive features, strategies and quizzes. Smoking causes almost half a million US deaths a year, and NIH points to research showing people who quit at any age are less likely to die of smoking-related illness.
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Tell Congress to Suspend Bee-Toxic Pesticides
The Center for Food Safety asks readers to urge their Representative to back the Saving America's Pollinators Act, which would suspend neonicotinoid insecticides on plants attractive to bees until reviews show they are safe and require agencies to track native bee populations.
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Weed killers and GE crops - Letter from EWG
The Environmental Working Group asks readers to sign a petition against Dow's application to sell Enlist Duo, a mix of 2,4-D and glyphosate for use on engineered crops. It says 2,4-D has been linked to hormone disruption, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
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EcoWatch post - Vermont sued over GMO labeling
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the International Dairy Foods Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Snack Food Association filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Vermont's new law, the first GE labeling measure passed without a trigger clause.
Legal Actions
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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What do they have to hide?
A Center for Food Safety fundraising letter asking readers to donate toward the group's court defense of Kauai's pesticide disclosure ordinance against Syngenta and other chemical companies.
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