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Food Safety Legislation

Tell the FDA You Eat It Raw

Linda Watson | Posted 04.30.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food Safety, Raw Foods, Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Modernization Act, Fsma, Dr. James R. Gorny, Food Safety Guidelines, Food Safety Legislation, Raw Fruits, Raw Food, Food Safety Bills, Raw Vegetables, Food Safety Modernization, Healthy Living News
Linda Watson

What should farmers do to make sure fruits and vegetables are safe to eat? That's the question at the core of listening sessions being held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency is seeking comments on the proposed new Food Safety Modernization Act rules.

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Infographic: A Food Safety Primer

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food, Food Safety, Cooking, Health, Food Safety Legislation, Cooking Food Safely, Food Safety Tips, Food Safety Bill, Home News
Paula Crossfield

While the debt deal struck earlier this month puts funding for the Food Safety Modernization Act, which passed in 2010 and will help the FDA improve the safety of our food, at risk, there is information that can empower consumers now.

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The Great Global Poisoning Experiment

John DeCock | Posted 09.14.2011 | Green
Read More: Clean Water Act, Food Safety, Toxic Chemicals, Food Safety Legislation, Chemicals Cancer, Exposure to Chemicals, Carcinogens, Chemicals, Cosmetics Chemicals, Green News
John DeCock

No matter how carefully you eat or drink or watch your exposure to toxins, your body has chemicals in it that do not belong there and have the potential to make you ill, even fatally ill.

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House Passes Food Safety Bill, Sends To President

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food Safety, Food Safety Legislation, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Food Politics, Home News

WASHINGTON — The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending i...

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Green News Report: November 18, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: BP made '...

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GOP Sen. Tom Coburn Threatens To Hold Up Food Safety Bill

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food Safety Legislation, Tom Coburn, Coburn Food Safety, Fda, Egg Recall, Food Safety, Tom Coburn FDA, Food Safety Bill, Sen. Tom Coburn, Home News

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator is threatening to hold up food safety legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration more power ...

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Fixing Our Food Safety System

Rep. Rosa DeLauro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Food Safety Legislation, Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Fda, Politics News
Rep. Rosa DeLauro

We have a responsibility to people to truly fix systemic problems in our food safety system, starting with a fundamental restructuring of the food safety bureaucracy at the FDA.

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