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Organic industry check-off program proposed in Senate ag committee's farm bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved its version of the 2012 farm bill 16-5, requiring a feasibility study of an organic industry check-off that would levy fees for marketing, promotion and research. The bill also reauthorizes $20 million a year for farmers market and local food promotion.
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NH Senate Votes Unanimously for Infant Fluoride Warning
New Hampshire’s Senate voted unanimously for HB-1416, requiring water companies to give infant fluoride warnings in fluoridated communities, after the House passed it 253-23. The article also lists recent votes to end fluoridation in Alberta, Curacao, Albuquerque and elsewhere.
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Over 60 Billion Doses a Year and Not ONE Death, But Still Not Safe?
Figures from the National Poison Data System, covering 57 US poison centers, recorded no deaths from vitamin or mineral supplements in 2010, while pharmaceuticals accounted for more than 1,100 of the 1,366 reported fatalities. Mercola contrasts this with the FDA's draft guidance.
Law & Regulations
Setting the Record Straight on the Proposed Chicken Inspection Policy
FSIS administrator Alfred Almanza, an inspector since 1978, defends the agency's proposal to modernize poultry slaughter inspection, saying much of the recent coverage is misinformation from people who have never been inside a poultry plant and that the plan will help prevent foodborne illness.
Advisories
Spring Celebrations: Handling Leftovers
USDA's Diane Van answers Meat and Poultry Hotline callers on holiday leftovers: cooked ham keeps only 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator despite being cured, and cooked brisket the same, or 2 to 3 months in the freezer for best quality.
Advisories
FDA alert: Cancer-causing agent found in Japanese rapid weight loss diet pills yellow and green
The FDA warns that Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills, sold on websites including Amazon and distributed by Xiushentang, contain phenolphthalein, a laxative the National Toxicology Program named a carcinogen in 2010. Consumers should stop using the pills and throw them away.
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FDA rejects petition that bisphenol A be banned
The FDA rejected a petition to ban bisphenol A from food and beverage containers, saying petitioners failed to supply convincing evidence for new restrictions. Plastics marked with recycling codes 3 and 7 may contain BPA, while codes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 are very unlikely to.
Advisories
Spring Celebrations: What’s on Your Menu?
A USDA food safety specialist answers spring holiday questions: check the label for how long a ham keeps, keep dyed eggs refrigerated until hiding time since more than two hours out lets bacteria multiply, and serve cold Passover dishes straight from the refrigerator on beds of ice.
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Deadline March 27th! Tell the FDA - Label my Food!
An Institute for Responsible Technology alert urging readers to sign the Center for Food Safety's petition asking the FDA to require labeling of genetically engineered foods, with a March 27 deadline for reaching one million comments.
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Occupy EPA and Monsanto
An activist appeal arguing the EPA does nothing to protect the public from Monsanto, and that genetically engineered crops have mainly driven up pesticide sales and patented seed prices rather than feeding the world.
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The Food Fight of Our Lives
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Association asking readers to help raise $150,000 by March 27 to put the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act on the November ballot.
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Everyone Loves "Got Milk" Ads--But They Don't Sell Milk (and Their Claims are False)
Milk sales have fallen about 1% a year for decades, the dairy checkoff programs concede in their reports to Congress, while crediting their marketing with mitigating some of the decline. The piece points to lactose intolerance, vegans, dieters and children who simply dislike milk.
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GMO Labeling: The No. 1 Reason to Donate Today
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Fund seeking $150,000 to pay signature gatherers for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, which cites warnings that GE foods harm health and says 75 to 80 percent of processed foods contain GMOs.
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Groups press FDA to require the labeling of added sugar
EWG, the American Heart Association and 12 other organizations petitioned the FDA to require food labels to distinguish added, processed sugars from natural ones. Current rules lump all sugars into one category, making processed sugar intake hard for shoppers to track.
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Get BPA out of our food!
An Environmental Working Group alert urging readers to email the FDA before its March 31 decision on whether to keep allowing food packaging that leaches bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen EWG found in more than half the canned foods it tested in 2007.
Advisories
Got Raw Milk? Don’t Drink It
A CDC veterinarian summarizes a study of 14 years of US dairy outbreaks: raw milk caused far more outbreaks than pasteurized milk, those outbreaks tended to be more severe, younger people were hit harder, and states allowing raw milk sales had more of them.
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Should pregnant women be forced to get vitamin D tests
The UK Department of Health is promoting a petition to add vitamin D testing to routine antenatal blood checks, citing research that deficiency in pregnancy may cause lasting in-utero damage. The article pushes back, noting testing and supplements are a revenue source for business.
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