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Food Safety Enhancement Act

Factory Farmer's Apology Will Not Make Eggs Safer

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Usda, Salmonella, Salmonella in Eggs, Fda, Egg Recall, Tom Coburn, Factory Farm Eggs, Factory Farm Eggs Hearing, Food Safety, Henry Waxman, Jack DeCoster, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

When it comes to eggs and other animal food products raised in huge, industrialized, often unsanitary factory farms, we need more than apologies: We need inspection, enforcement, and accountability.

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Santa Does Not Exist and Neither Does Bi-Partisanship in Congress

William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food Safety, Salmonella, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Congress, Bi-Partisanship, 2010 Elections, Harry Reid, US Congress, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Elections 2010, Home News
William Marler

Yes, it does seem clear that the Republicans are intent on keeping to their narrative of no. But, perhaps the Democrats do not want to give the Republicans a chance to be bi-partisan?

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Food Safety in the US: We're on Red Alert

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Bush Administration, Foodborne Illness, Food Safety, Food, Salmonella, Food Recall, Fda, Feedlots, Food and Drug Administration, Cafos, Food Safety Enhancement Act, E. Coli, Home News
Andrew Kimbrell

Illnesses caused by contaminated foods, which could be prevented with proper government oversight, are instead causing massive hospitalization and the deaths of thousands of Americans.

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Put Healthcare on the Chopping Block and Take Up Food Safety

William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Food Safety, Obama, Healthcare, Fda, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Politics News
William Marler

It's time to tone down the rhetoric on health care and do something positive: pass meaningful food safety legislation.

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Give Peanuts a Second Chance

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Food Safety, Arrested Development, Fda, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Cornballer, Politics News
Harry Moroz

While in recent years Congress has improved oversight of toys and drugs, food products has been roundly ignored. Meanwhile, the CDC reports that there are 76 million cases of food-borne illness in the US each year.

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Food, Inc. Gets Rave Reviews, Big Ag Shudders

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Food Movement, Michael Pollan, Gmos, Food Inc., Fast Food, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Regulation, Big Ag, Hillary Clinton, Food Safety, Legislation, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Today, Food, Inc. debuts: it is certainly not a film to miss. Big Ag realizes that the tide is turning on the corporate control of our food system, and that their message is in jeopardy.

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