Please send a thank you note to Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, The Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE #302, Washington, D.C. 20003. Thank him for the opportunity to spend far more money than necessary to control weeds ...
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A decades-long push to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday [Apr. 24, 2013], when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on January 28 in the Federal Register a reorganization for the Foods and Veterinary Medicine (FVM) program that was implemented on October 1, 2012. Under the reorganization, the Office of ...
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Russia has threatened to ban imports of chilled meat from the US due to the presence of feed additive ractopamine, in the latest in a series of food safety complaints from the ex-Soviet power. Russia is considering a temporary ban on ...
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A new laboratory has been constructed at the Science Park in College Station,Texas,US,to allow rapid foodborne pathogen testing and characterization. The new facility will provide support to the members of the Center for Food Safety,a ...
The Hong Kong Center for Food Safety has alerted companies to stop selling and to recall the affected beef from XL Foods,a Canadian meat packing company. Shipments have been suspended for XL products which were produced on or after 24 ...
Tags: beef, CFIA, E.coli contamination, foods contaminated
The proposed $4.7 billion sale of Smithfield Foods, America's largest pork producer, to China's biggest meat processing company comes amid significant trade friction between the two countries over meat and livestock. China bans ...
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