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Hospitals and care homes are failing food safety inspections

10/5/2016 - Any time food safety concerns take the spotlight, such as in the recent listeria-related food recalls, people are often warned that it is the sick and elderly who are most vulnerable. You would think, therefore, that the standards in kitchens that cater to this segment of the population might be held...

EU Food Safety Authority can't hide the names of 'experts' who change pesticide risk assessment rules, court decides

8/30/2015 - In what proponents are calling a "landmark" decision in favor of transparency in Europe, the EU Court confirmed in a recent ruling that protecting health and the environment is a higher priority than protecting the confidentiality of experts who have, at times, changed risk rules. As noted in a press...

USDA rules will allow chicken factories to conduct their own inspections

9/17/2014 - Apparently overburdened with having to police the filthy factory farm industry in accordance with the law, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has decided to simply hand over the inspection reigns to processing plants themselves, according to new reports. Updated "food safety" guidelines will...

Leaked document of secret trade globalization meetings reveals lack of concern for food safety and public health

8/10/2014 - A draft chapter of the United States-European Union trade agreement that was leaked recently by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) shows that public health and food safety might be at risk, or so says an accompanying analysis of the document. According to the Cornucopia Institute...

Walmart triples spending on food safety after China meat scare

6/28/2014 - In case you missed it, Walmart made global headlines earlier this year after meat sold in its Chinese market tested positive for the DNA of other animals. Meat labeled as "Five Spice" donkey meat apparently contained fox meat as well, sparking a massive investigation into the supply chain from which...

Food poisoning sickens 100 people at Food Safety Summit

5/23/2014 - Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fell ill after attending a national Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, last month. "A couple of our folks indicated that they had experienced symptoms associated with food poisoning...

FOODSNIFFER smartphone app will allow food safety testing by consumers everywhere

5/11/2014 - European researchers are working on developing a smartphone-embedded sensor that would allow consumers to scan food for the presence of contaminants -- from pesticides and allergens to foodborne infectious agents. The sensor is being developed under the name FOODSNIFFER (FOOD Safety at the point-of-Need...

Food poisoning sickens hundreds at Food Safety Summit; top food industry officials affected

5/7/2014 - In what some would say is an ironic moment if ever there was one, more than 100 people attending a Food Safety Summit have recently become ill from food poisoning, of all things. The April 8-10, 2014, conference was held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland, drawing over 1,000 top food...

European Parliament votes to ban industry-connected scientists from Food Safety Authority

5/1/2014 - Due to a rash of conflict-of-interest scandals at the European Food Safety Authority, the European Parliament voted recently on a resolution that would ban scientists who have ties to the agriculture and food industries from being employed by the agency. The resolution urges the EFSA to implement...

Center for Food Safety sues to force USDA to explain why it approved genetically modified alfalfa

4/12/2014 - A food safety organization has filed suit in federal court in a bid to force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to hand over documents in court that could explain why the federal agency approved GM alfalfa despite several concerns about its environmental safety. The organization, the Washington-based...

FDA unleashes despotic food safety war targeting organic farms

3/5/2014 - The provisions guiding the infamous Food Safety Modernization Act are slowly starting to come into effect, and many small-scale farmers across the United States are discovering that they are the primary targets of an oppressive new food safety war being waged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Five food safety rules you really don't want to break

8/30/2013 - Sharing a meal with family and friends not only allows you to highlight your favorite dishes, but also encourages talking and bonding. In the busy world of today, few other events help bring people together more than food. Keeping those that enjoy the favorites you dish out safe requires a commitment...

New European food safety guidelines affirm methodology, findings of Seralini's GM corn lab rat study

8/22/2013 - After vehemently criticizing a researcher's groundbreaking study and inappropriately calling into question the validity of his rigorous scientific research methods, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has made a surprising about-face. According to new reports, the agency recently vindicated Professor...

Consumer Alert: Secret trade agreements threaten food safety, subvert democracy

6/18/2013 - If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don't meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug...

FDA requests $300 million war chest to implement onerous new food safety regulations against farmers, commercial food growers

4/15/2013 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested nearly $300 million in additional agency funding from Congress in order to implement the oppressive tenets of the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which will stifle American farmers and commercial food growers and potentially put...

Food safety false flag? USDA waited for people to die before recalling ground turkey it knew was contaminated

8/10/2011 - Adding yet more evidence to the proof that the U.S. government maliciously promotes dangerous food borne illness outbreaks rather than trying to prevent them, evidence has emerged today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture knew ground turkey produced by Cargill was widely contaminated with salmonella,...

Danish food safety laws ban products containing added vitamins, allege they are threat to public health

6/2/2011 - So-called food safety laws enacted in Denmark back in 2004 have restricted the sale of any food products that contain added vitamins and minerals, and all on the outlandish premise that such nutrients are a threat to public health. And just recently, the country banned Marmite, a popular food spread...

With superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the truth comes out about the FDA Food Safety Bill

4/17/2011 - Remember all the hubbub about the S.510 "Food Safety Bill" and how it would make your food safe to eat? Well, it turns out those expanded FDA powers do absolutely nothing to even address the safety of fresh meat products, and yet new research reveals that nearly half of all fresh meat and poultry products...

How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy American jobs, farms and local foods

1/12/2011 - How will the new Food Safety Modernization Act actually impact small, local farmers who grow food for CSA's, local restaurants and grocers? To find out, I took a road trip to Texas and interviewed several small, local farmers to ask them, face to face, how the S.510 Food Safety Modernization Act would...

Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations

12/29/2010 - Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety Modernization...

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths

12/28/2010 - The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even...

Congress sticks it to U.S. farmers with passage of food safety bill that will actually cause fresh produce to be more dangerous

12/22/2010 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2751 yesterday with a 216 to 144 vote (yes, many members of the House did not even vote). The so-called Food Safety Modernization Act now heads to the President to be signed into law. When witnessing such a moment in history when the federal government...

S 510 Fake Food Safety bill passed by Senate in late-night sneak attack on small farmers and food freedom

12/20/2010 - The infamous S.510 "food food safety bill" was passed by the US Senate last night in a sneaky, last minute voice vote. All Senators voted for it, Republicans and Democrats alike. Not a single U.S. Senator -- not even Coburn -- objected to its passage. With this vote, the US Senate now sends the bill...

Mainstream media agrees that food safety bill will do nothing to improve food safety

12/11/2010 - A recent editorial in Forbes magazine online slams the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act" for being a huge waste of taxpayer money, and an effort that will do absolutely nothing to actually improve food safety. What it will do, says the article, is run small-...

Urgent: Democrats attempting to pass Food Safety Act by hiding it inside appropriations bill HR 3082

12/8/2010 - In a last-ditch effort to resurrect S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, House Democrats are effectively hiding approval of the bill inside another bill -- HR 3082, an appropriations bill meant to fund the Department of Veterans Affairs. Health freedom attorney Ralph Fucetola has been monitoring...

S 510 Food Safety bill now dead in the water due to blue slip mistake

12/1/2010 - It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively "new taxes" into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate legislation requiring new taxes. Thus,...

List of U.S. Senators who voted for S 510 Food Safety Act

11/30/2010 - Senate Bill S 510 - the "Food Safety Modernization Act" - was passed by the U.S. Senate today (https://www.naturalnews.com/030576_Food_Safety_S_510.html). If signed into law, it would unleash a new era of FDA tyranny over farmers, food producers and even small family farms, many of which already exceed...

Despite massive protests, US Senate passes S 510 Food Safety Bill

11/30/2010 - The new Food Tyranny Act -- called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate -- has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of the food contamination...

Senate delays S 510 food safety bill vote until Tuesday

11/29/2010 - Slammed by a barrage of phone calls and emails today that the mainstream media isn't even reporting, the U.S. Senate today has decided to postpone their vote on S.510 -- the Food Safety Modernization Act -- until Tuesday morning. Internet reports that S.510 has already passed are incorrect. The final...

Urgent call for action, last chance to defeat S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act

11/29/2010 - "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious -- makes you so sick at heart -- that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it...

US Senate debate on S.510 Food Safety bill could extend into the weekend

11/18/2010 - At 10:30 today, the U.S. Senate picks up its debate on the issue of S.510, the "Food Safety and Modernization Act" which is really a wolf in sheep's clothing. It would grant the FDA new, tyrannical powers that could be used to criminalize backyard gardening, outlaw saving seeds, imprison people who...

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

11/16/2010 - Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate...

Food Safety Bill HR 2749 Requires Immediate Opposition

6/23/2009 - The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has announced the immediate need to oppose a new and integrated form of the many food safety bills that have been announced in recent months as potential candidate food safety bills. HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, is an aggregated version of...

Food Freedom is under Assault, H.R. 759 Worse than H.R. 875

4/24/2009 - Salmonella outbreaks, food contamination, and other regulatory deficiencies over the nation's food supply during the past several years have led to a barrage of proposed legislation aimed at improving food safety. H.R. 875, H.R. 759, and H.R. 1332, are three major bills that have been proposed in recent...

FDA Ignores the Pet Food Safety Deadline

12/13/2008 - The FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) was signed into law last year requiring the FDA to make improvements on food safety for people and pets. The first deadline required by the Amendments Act law, requiring an Early Warning and Notification System during a pet food recall, has come and gone seemingly ignored...

America's Food Safety System on Verge of Breakdown, Warns Report

10/15/2008 - The United States' food safety system is in crisis, with a confusing patchwork of regulations, authority and a dire lack of funding, according to a report released by the Trust for America's Health. "One in four Americans is sickened by food-borne illnesses each year," said Jeffrey Levi, the organization's...

When It Comes to Pet Food Safety Reform, the FDA Is Full of Excuses

8/27/2008 - You are well aware of the pet food recall of 2007. You are well aware that due to that recall thousands of pets died, and thousands more became ill. You are probably aware that the FDA held a public meeting on May 13, 2008 to seek input from stakeholder groups –- including consumers –- for the future...

FDA Leaps from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate, Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety over Salmonella

7/11/2008 - Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged destruction of tens of millions of dollars of perfectly good tomatoes, this confused, bewildered agency admits that tomatoes may not have been the problem after all, and...

FDA Pet Food Safety Meeting Proves No One Is Watching Out for Pets

6/25/2008 - If you heard a thud last week it was the ball dropping... the $26 Billion dollar a year pet food industry ball being dropped by the FDA and every major pet organization in the U.S. Finally, fourteen months after the world's largest pet food recall –- on May 13, 2008 the FDA held its Pet Food Safety...

Even with increased funding, FDA closes half its food safety labs

10/18/2007 - A study by the House Energy and Commerce Committee has strongly criticized an FDA plan to close seven of its 13 food and product testing laboratories in order to centralize operations and save money. The report concluded that the FDA should abandon the plan. The FDA is currently responsible for overseeing...

The latest U.S. health safety distraction ploy: Blame China!

8/3/2007 - U.S. health and safety officials have found yet another brilliant way to distract the public from realizing just how dangerous U.S.-made food and drug products are: Blame China! Lately, we've seen China blamed for everything from toxic toothpaste, deadly dog food, contaminated ginger and now lead-based...

"Fast Food Nation" author pushes for new food safety agency

12/19/2006 - According to Eric Schlosser, author of the best-selling book "Fast Food Nation," the U.S. food industry should be regulated by a single food safety agency with the authority to test foods, issue recalls and punish companies that violate food safety rules. Schlosser called for both parties to support...

Urgent: Stop the National Uniformity for Food Act (H.R. 4167) before it wipes out hundreds of food safety labeling laws

3/4/2006 - Keep up the pressure on your lawmakers to stop passage of H.R. 4167, a bill heavily supported by junk food manufacturers that would -- believe it or not -- make it ILLEGAL for States to protect their citizens from food products containing heavy metals, cancer causing chemicals, aspartame and other dangerous...

Japan's Food Safety Commission says USDA asleep at the wheel on mad cow disease

7/8/2004 - The USDA has done such a poor job investigating mad cow disease that even other countries like Japan are being forced to conduct their own investigations into the safety of U.S. beef. Hey, isn't that the USDA's job? Don't be silly. The job of the USDA is to promote U.S. agriculture and cattle ranchers...

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