The FDA is warning food service companies and consumers not to use Uncle Ben's Infused Rice sold in 5- and 25-pound bags, and Mars Foodservices is recalling all lots. Thirty-four students and four teachers at three Katy, Texas schools had burning rashes, headaches and nausea for 30 to 90 minutes.
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Humorous New Video Tells the Real Story Behind Most Chicken Produced in the U.S. (PR)
Food & Water Watch released a comic video, featuring actors Constance Zimmer, Raphael Sbarge and Samantha Ressler, on how most US chicken is raised and processed. Executive director Wenonah Hauter says the industry is pushing for slaughter lines of 175 birds a minute.
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Were Your Cheap Eggs Produced With These Unethical Practices?
A January fire at S&R Egg Farm in La Grange, Wisconsin burned 300,000 caged hens alive and drew more than 50 fire departments. Similar fires have hit other battery operations, including one that killed 250,000 hens at Ohio Fresh Eggs four years earlier.
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The Tipping Point Continues To Gain Momentum….
An Institute for Responsible Technology newsletter reporting that a major food company executive believes consumers have reached a tipping point on GMOs, and describing the group's push to stop FDA approval of AquaBounty's fast-growing transgenic salmon.
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Tumors, Bad Organs, and Death…Oh My!
After a two-year study reported that Monsanto's Roundup Ready corn, and Roundup by itself, caused tumors, organ damage and early death in rats, lead author Gilles-Eric Seralini filed a libel suit against critics. A petition asks that GM food approvals be frozen pending long-term safety studies.
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Tell FDA: Do Not Approve Genetically Engineered Salmon!
An action alert urging readers to sign a petition against FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon, noting Sen. Dianne Feinstein's concern that the agency is judging the fish under a framework built for animal drugs, with a Feb. 25, 2013 deadline.
Advisories
Health Insurance Open Enrollment Ends March 31
Marketplace coverage requires applying before open season closes March 31; missing it means waiting for the next season, expected to open November 15, 2014, unless a qualifying life event applies. Medicaid and CHIP take enrollments year-round.
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Marketing Junk Food Still Prevalent in Schools
Questionnaires from school administrators show vending machine profits, advertising and fast-food options all rose in US schools between 2007 and 2012. Most elementary students attended schools that used pizza as a reward, and nearly a third of high schoolers could buy fast food weekly.
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The Supreme Court Denies Family Farmers the Right to Self-Defense from Monsanto Abuse
The Supreme Court declined to reinstate Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association v. Monsanto, leaving farmers unable to seek preemptive protection from the company's seed patents. Counsel Daniel Ravicher notes the appeals ruling still bars suits below 1% contamination.
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Organic Consumers Association Newsletter: Food Industry Drafts Law to Kill GMO Labeling
The Organic Consumers Association reports, citing POLITICO, that food industry lobbyists are hunting for sponsors of a bill to limit the FDA's power to require GMO labels, wipe out state labeling laws, and let products containing GMOs be called natural.
Law & Regulations
National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection to Host Public Meeting
The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection meets in Washington Jan. 7-8, 2014 to review safe handling instructions on food labels. FSIS also wants feedback on its Establishment-Specific Data Release Strategic Plan and will take comments through Feb. 8, 2014.
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Do you trust the FDA?
The Center for Food Safety says manufacturers now simply notify FDA that an additive is generally recognized as safe, with no agency review or confirmation. It is weighing new action and asks readers who bought infant formula with probiotics or DHA, Quorn, or Olestra products to get in touch.
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What if FDA approves GE salmon?
A Center for Food Safety appeal asking readers to donate to its campaign against FDA approval of AquaBounty's genetically engineered salmon, citing escapes from net pens, hybridization with wild brown trout, and unknown human health effects.
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CRN Comments on USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement
The Council for Responsible Nutrition, a dietary supplement trade association, comments on the US Preventive Services Task Force's draft recommendation on vitamin, mineral and multivitamin supplements for preventing heart disease and cancer, urging careful wording in the final text.
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12-7-2013 newsletter from Organic Consumer Association - Say "no" to GMO apple
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter on Food and Chemical Toxicology's retraction of the Seralini study linking GM corn to tumors in rats, noting the journal created a biotechnology editor post and filled it with a former Monsanto employee after industry complaints.
Advisories
USDA Food Safety Tips for Areas Affected by Severe Storms
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service offers storm advice: keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer at 40°F and 0°F or lower, freeze water in small bags to pack around food, freeze items you will not use soon, and line up dry ice and coolers in advance.
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16 Fluoride Bills in 9 States
A Fluoride Action Network appeal reporting $4,681 from 77 donors toward a $120,000 goal, noting that major foundations will not fund the issue while Pew Charitable Trusts campaigns for fluoridation, and previewing state legislation after years of pro-fluoridation bills.
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Give a non-GMO Tree to the Rainforest for the Holidays!
The Institute for Responsible Technology backs an IndieGoGo holiday campaign to plant 170,000 native trees on 250 acres for 100 subsistence farm families in Brazil, at $5 a tree, in response to GM tree plantations and glyphosate spraying near the rainforest.
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