President Obama’s first day in office: President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel sent a memo to all federal departments to halt the implementation of rules issued during the final days of the Bush Administration. The halt would allow for a full review by the Obama Administration, according to press reports. Key among those rules for food [...]
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Group Urges Wider Application of Regulation to Ensure Public Right to Know The Center for Food Safety (CFS) has criticized USDA’s Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) rule for falling short of fully protecting the public’s right to know where their food comes from. In its final rule the USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service defines the requirements [...]
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Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Assessed: Center Urges Rethink of “Food for Fuel” Policy The Center for Food Safety today urged the incoming U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) to refrain from approving the world’s first genetically engineered (GE) crop designed specifically for fuel, not food. The Center maintains that this GE “biofuels [...]
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