The Vitamin D Council is asking readers to sign a petition backing its planned complaint against the FDA, arguing that delivering dietary vitamin D chiefly through fortified milk fails African Americans, who drink less milk and need far more sun exposure to make the same vitamin D.
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USDA Filling Five Vacancies on the National Organic Standards Board (PR)
The USDA is taking nominations for five National Organic Standards Board seats opening Jan. 24, 2012: producer, handler, consumer representative, scientist and environmentalist. Cornucopia, citing past agribusiness appointments, asks the department to make the process public.
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Ruffling feathers
EWG's updated Farm Subsidy Database again shows federal payments flowing to large farms and to recipients far from any farm, Beverly Hills postcodes among them. Ken Cook points readers to the group's farm bill resources and his TEDx talk on the subject.
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USDA and Corporate Agribusiness Continue to Push Animal ID Scheme (PR)
USDA is expected to propose mandatory animal traceability rules requiring tagging and tracing even with no active disease threat. Family farm advocates say the agency has not explained the need; R-CALF's Bill Bullard calls it a one-size-fits-all break from past disease-specific programs.
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Call now to protect healthy food (PR)
EWG Action Fund asks readers to phone their representatives as the House takes up the 2012 agriculture spending bill, opposing an amendment that would end Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food and backing amendments for local food systems and stronger school lunch standards.
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Reigniting Organic Attack by Corporate Agribusiness Interests
The Cornucopia Institute says a new generation of critics is attacking organic agriculture on agribusiness's behalf, singling out Mischa Popoff, whose self-published book questions the organic label and USDA oversight while defending biotechnology.
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Organic Food May Become a Thing of the Past
A jury awarded Riceland Foods $11.8 million in compensatory and $125 million in punitive damages after Bayer's unapproved genetically modified rice contaminated US long-grain rice and EU buyers refused it. Mercola also relays Don Huber's claim of a new pathogen tied to Roundup and GMO crops.
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United Fresh Examines Potentially Devastating Impact of Mandatory E-Verify (PR)
The United Fresh Produce Association will run four webinars for members, starting June 28 on mandatory E-Verify, which the group says would badly disrupt the agricultural workforce. Later sessions cover child nutrition and food safety ahead of its October policy conference.
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The Food Label and You - NEW Video
A set of FDA videos teaching the Nutrition Facts label and the 5-20 Rule through spoofs of sports broadcasts, game shows and CSI, plus street interviews asking people what counts as a serving. Produced by CDRH-TV for CFSAN.
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Fish Hazards and Controls: More Than a Fish Story
The FDA's Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, in its fourth edition since April 2011, tells fishermen and processors how to control parasites, pathogens and natural toxins, among them scombrotoxin, whose histamine builds up when fish are not chilled quickly.
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Washington Public Policy Conference to Engage, Develop Family Produce Businesses (PR)
The United Fresh Foundation is taking applications for its 2011 Frieda Rapoport Caplan Family Business Scholarship, which gives up to four family-owned member businesses free airfare, hotel and registration for the Washington Public Policy Conference on October 3-5.
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Ralph Nader Joins Influential Leaders Questioning Fluoridation
The Fluoride Action Network says Ralph Nader has joined opposition to mandatory water fluoridation, points readers to a new Mercola article on fluoride, and reports more than 3,700 professionals have signed its statement calling for an end to fluoridation.
Law & Regulations
Benjamin L. England to Present at the FDLI US-China Food and Drug Law Conference (PR)
Benjamin L. England, founder and CEO of FDAImports.com, will speak on a panel about the new US Food Safety Modernization Act at the Food and Drug Law Institute's US-China Food and Drug Law Conference in Beijing on June 13 and 14, 2011.
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Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA
An EWG appeal asking readers to sign a petition by June 9 urging the FDA to implement the sunscreen rules it proposed in 2007. EWG's review of more than 500 beach and sport sunscreens rated SPF 30 or higher found about 60 percent give inadequate UVA protection.
Advisories
Food pyramid replaced by a plate
The USDA replaced the food pyramid with a plate icon under its Choose My Plate campaign, showing vegetables and grains in larger proportion than fruit and meat. Its advice: eat less, avoid oversized portions, fill half the plate with produce and drink water, not sugary drinks.
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Family farmers amplify legal complaint against Monsanto's GMOs
The Public Patent Foundation filed an amended complaint for family farmers, seed businesses and organic groups challenging Monsanto's GM seed patents, after Monsanto declined to promise it would not sue growers whose crops its seed contaminates.
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Begin the Summertime Grilling Season with a Food Safety Home Run - USDA
USDA's Memorial Day grilling advice breaks safe handling into four steps, clean, separate, cook and chill: wash hands 20 seconds before and after handling food, keep separate cutting boards for raw meat and vegetables, and use a food thermometer.
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FDA seeks comment on preventive controls against foodborne illness
The FDA opened a public docket seeking recommendations on preventive control measures for food facilities under the Food Safety Modernization Act, including approaches workable for small businesses. Comments will feed into the hazard-analysis guidance the law requires.
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