The FDA reopened comment on its 2007 proposal to define gluten-free labeling, which would bar the claim on foods containing 20 parts per million or more of gluten, and released a safety assessment of gluten exposure for people with celiac disease.
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AGRI-MARK/CABOT “rBST-FREE” Misrepresentations Demand Consumer Education (pr)
A Vermont ruling found Agri-Mark, known to shoppers as Cabot Creamery, broke the state's consumer fraud act by selling products labelled rBST-free that were not. The Institute for Responsible Technology says the case typifies what buyers seeking non-GM food are up against.
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Special Town Hall Meeting on Fluoridegate (pr)
A town hall meeting and debate on Fluoridegate takes place at 6:30 p.m. Monday, August 1 at St. Stephen's Cathedral in San Diego, with David Kennedy, DDS and Paul Connett, PhD on the panel. Bishop McKinney convened it over harm to minority children and other susceptible groups.
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Good food
A restaurateur's appeal for EWG's Meatless Monday pledge, citing EWG's estimate that if everyone in the US skipped meat and cheese one day a week for a year it would equal taking 7.6 million cars off the road.
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PCRM Scientists Push EPA to Scuttle Animal Test Plans
PCRM's toxicology team persuaded the EPA to cancel a neurotoxicity test that would have used at least 120 rats on the insecticide Tau-fluvalinate, arguing the chemical's neurotoxic potential could be read from existing data. Comments on another product spared 35 fish.
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CORNUCOPIA: The USDA's Regulatory Hammer Finally Comes down on Promisedland Dairy --- Ending One of the Largest Scandals in the Organic Industry's History (PR)
Cornucopia's Mark Kastel says the USDA finally acted against Promisedland Dairy, long suspected of laundering conventional cattle as organic, and that it fell over refusing to share records required by law. He faults the years the appeals process dragged on.
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USDA Announces Proposed Rule to Better Label Raw Meat and Poultry Containing Added Solutions (PR)
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service proposed a rule requiring clear, common names for raw meat and poultry containing added solutions, after finding labels that do not distinguish plain cuts from products that may be 40 percent solution. The agency is taking comments.
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One of the Biggest Food Frauds Perpetrated on the American People
The Ninth Circuit let stand rulings that require the USDA to prepare a rigorous environmental review of Roundup Ready sugar beets. Challengers argued since 2008 that the crop would contaminate organic beets and chard and worsen pesticide use and the spread of resistant weeds.
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FDA Announces Agency Restructuring: A Change For The Better? (PR)
FDAImports.com obtained Commissioner Margaret Hamburg's email announcing a shake-up in which center directors now report to deputy commissioners: Steven Spielberg over medical products and tobacco, Deborah Autor over global regulatory operations, and Mike Taylor over food safety law.
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Unhappy Meals: Kids LiveWell Program Promotes Fast Food to Children
Kids LiveWell asks participating chains to offer just one 'healthful' entree and one side, leaving every other kids' dish unrestricted. It flags Burger King's sausage, egg and cheese breakfast muffin, which with milk and apple fries exceeds IOM cholesterol and sodium limits.
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Congressman Ron Paul on Fluoridation, and More Victories! (PR)
In an interview with Fluoride Action Network campaign director Stuart Cooper, the Republican presidential candidate said the federal government should have “zero” role in promoting fluoridation, calling it a local issue he would work to keep Washington out of.
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Big Ag/USDA Could Run Organic Leafy Green Growers out of Business!
The Cornucopia Institute urges comments by July 28 against the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, arguing that standards written by industry representatives around large-scale, chemical-intensive farming could shut smaller organic and local growers out of the market.
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Another community stops fluoridation
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin on New Zealand's Ruapehu District Council voting to end fluoridation of the Taumarunui water supply, quoting its reasons: no real consultation when it began in the 1960s, the council's limited role in health, and residents' lack of choice.
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FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels: Meat, Dairy Products Need Similar
PCRM answers the FDA's new graphic cigarette warning labels with parallel warnings of its own for meat and dairy, claiming the two carry the same risks of death, addiction, cancer, stroke and heart disease, and pointing readers to its reports and its 21-Day Vegan Kickstart.
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FDA Says: Drinking This Natural Food is a Crime
Mercola covers Ron Paul's bill to undo the FDA ban on interstate raw milk sales, in force since 1987 but seriously enforced only since 2006 through sting operations and raids, and the court case of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer.
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I'm kicking the can this month - join me! - from Breast Cancer Fund
The Breast Cancer Fund asks readers to pledge to skip canned food through July 31, saying most canned food companies still line cans with BPA, an estrogenic chemical linked to breast cancer that migrates into food. It cites 93% of Americans carrying BPA.
Law & Regulations
FDA Finally Listened and Removed Arsenic from Chickens
Pfizer will stop selling 3-Nitro, the arsenic-based drug roxarsone fed to chickens since the 1940s, after an FDA study of 100 broilers found higher inorganic arsenic in the livers of treated birds than untreated ones.
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Dirty little secret - Newsletter from EWG
An EWG Action Fund appeal asking readers to petition Congress before the farm bill is written, saying 74% of crop subsidies go to big farms that do not need them or to "farmers" who live nowhere near one, including nearly $400 million last year.
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