Under the Food Safety Modernization Act, passed in 2011, the FDA shifts from responding to outbreaks to preventing them, requiring facilities that make, process, pack or hold food for US consumption to adopt preventive controls and adding two programs for importers.
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Three more communities to end fluoridation this year
Three Indiana towns, Walkerton, North Liberty and Lakeville, voted to stop fluoridating their water, affecting about 5,000 people; two cited health concerns and one the rising cost of the chemicals. The newsletter also updates a Wichita ballot fight over fluoridation.
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Stonyfield Chairman Throws Weight/Commitment Behind Proposition 37 in California
Stonyfield chairman Gary Hirshberg has contributed to the California Proposition 37 campaign for labeling genetically modified ingredients, after The Cornucopia Institute publicly asked why leading organic brands were absent. Cornucopia's Mark Kastel called the gesture impressive.
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The Truth About Eggs – What Commercial Egg Farmers Don’t Want You to Know
A Humane Society undercover video at Kreider Farms in Pennsylvania shows crowded cages, untended dead birds and a fly infestation; the owner denies the allegations but concedes one building tested positive for salmonella. Mercola recalls the 2010 recall of 550 million eggs.
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Leading Energy Drink Makers Under Investigation for Misleading Consumers
The New York attorney general has subpoenaed PepsiCo, Monster Beverage and Living Essentials over energy drink marketing, looking at whether they overstate healthful-sounding ingredients, play down caffeine, and leave caffeine sources such as guarana off the label.
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Iconic Organic Industry Giants Missing in Action
The Cornucopia Institute's Mark Kastel says Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Stonyfield and Hain-Celestial have stayed silent on California's Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered ingredients. Backers have raised $3 million against agribusiness's $23.5 million.
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Massive Fund Attack on GMO Labeling Proposal in California
Monsanto has given $4.2 million so far to defeat California's Proposition 37, which would require labelling of genetically engineered food, with DuPont adding $1.27 million and Dow Agro $1.18 million. Dr. Mercola contrasts this with the 50 countries that require labels.
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Stanford's "Spin" on Organics Allegedly Tainted by Biotechnology Funding
The Cornucopia Institute's press release attacks a Stanford study reporting that organic food is no safer or more nutritious than conventional, arguing the researchers spun their own findings, which included an 81 percent reduction in exposure to toxic agrichemicals.
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Portland Fluoridation vote on Wednesday
Portland's city council prepares to vote on water fluoridation, bypassing three earlier citizen votes against it. More than 275 residents testified at a public hearing, over 60% opposing, with the pro-fluoride lobby given an uninterrupted hour and others two to three minutes.
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$7.5 Million Settlement Ends Organic Dairy Scandal - Walmart, Costco, Target Allegedly Deceived Consumers
Aurora Dairy agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a class-action consumer fraud suit over private-label organic milk sold by Walmart, Costco, Target and others. Federal regulators had found Aurora willfully violated organic pasture rules and brought conventional cows into organic herds.
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QUOTABLES: Organic Duel - Scientists Versus Scientists (Providing Balance)
Charlotte Vallaeys of The Cornucopia Institute argues that organic food's lower pesticide residues alone justify buying it, noting the USDA has found residues above the EPA's threshold for children on conventional fruits linked in one study to higher ADHD rates.
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Thinking Outside the Processed Foods Box—Health and Safety Advantages of Organic Food
A longtime organic eater rebuts the Stanford analysis covered by the New York Times and AP, arguing it ignored studies showing conventional food's nutrient content has fallen, the soil fertility organic farming builds, and the agrichemical and GMO exposures organic rules exclude.
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California Slaughterhouse Reopens with Vow to Not Suffocate Animals or Shock Them in the Face
A week after the USDA closed Central Valley Meat Co. of Hanford over its treatment of sick and dying dairy cows, the plant reopened under pressure from three California Republicans, who argued the alleged violations did not compromise food safety and the shutdown hurt farmers.
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins tells Dr. Mercola that California's Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food and stop it being marketed as natural, is gaining momentum: a million signatures gathered and about $4 million raised, with industry money now flowing in against it.
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Are You Eating Ground Beef From This Shuttered Slaughterhouse?
Four years after the Westland/Hallmark recall, USDA suspended Central Valley Meat Co. of Hanford, California over video from Compassion Over Killing showing similar abuse of sick and downed dairy cows. Such cull cows supply much of the cheap and ground beef sold.
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Discover Who Most Wants to Hide the Truth About Your Food
Ronnie Cummins names corporations - Kellogg's, General Mills, Dean Foods, Coca-Cola, Kraft - that profit from organic and natural brands while funding the Monsanto-led campaign against California's Proposition 37 GMO labeling measure. Opponents have raised $25 million to supporters' $3 million.
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City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
Dr. Mercola describes cities across the U.S. and Canada ordering residents to tear out vegetable gardens: a Drummondville, Quebec couple told their edible yard exceeds a 30 percent limit, a Michigan woman charged with a misdemeanor, a B.C. man threatened with jail.
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Stop Dairy Industry from Milking School Lunches for Profit
PCRM petitioned the USDA to report to Congress recommending that milk no longer be required in the National School Lunch Program, arguing milk does not improve bone health, is the top source of saturated fat in children's diets, and could be replaced by calcium-enriched soy or rice milk.
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