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  • CANADA: Que. certification ties livestock to direct-seeded feed

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 5:25pm

    Quebec's provincial ag department and the farmers' direct-seeding group Action semis direct have set up a certification program tying livestock and eggs to direct-seeded feed crops.

    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Manitoba Cooperator
    Animals  |  Comments
  • COLORADO: Boulder County panel hears arguments about genetically modified sugar beets

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 5:22pm

    BOULDER -- Dozens of people marched to a Boulder County Courthouse public-hearing microphone Thursday night to make impassioned pleas for the county to reject six farmers’ proposal to plant a genetically modified organism — Roundup Ready sugar beets — on land those farmers lease from the county.

    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    TimesCall.com
    Genetic Engineering  |  Comments
  • US: USDA proposes biobased product consumer label rule

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 5:21pm

    WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making it easier for consumers to identify biobased products through the release of its proposed BioPreferredSM labeling rule.

    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    USDA
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • CHINA: Black tea may lower blood sugar

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 5:20pm

    Black tea contains a substance that mimics type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset. Black tea contains more of the substance, a polysaccharide compound, than either green or oolong tea, report Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China. Coarse tea has been used as a diabetes treatment in China and Japan. It's known that tea polysaccharides reduce blood sugar.

    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    WebMD
    Functional Food  |  Comments
  • US: House OKs bill to tighten food growing, processing

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:24am

    Washington Post
    Lyndsey Layton
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073003271.html
    Washington, D.C.
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Des Moines Register
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • US: The details

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:20am

    Key provisions of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, approved by the House on Thursday:
    Inspections Food and Drug Administration inspections of food facilities would increase from about once every 10 years to at least annually for high-risk facilities and at least once every three years for facilities deemed a low risk.
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Washington Post
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • US: E. coli O157:H7 settlement reached in hemolytic uremic syndrome case linked to hamburger

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:19am

    A confidential settlement was reached this morning on behalf of twelve-year-old Rebecca Gosla, who was sickened in a 2007 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to contaminated ground beef that were manufactured by United Foods. Rebecca’s illness stands apart from most E.
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Marler Blog
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • FIJI: Stop raw milk consumption: Ministry

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:17am

    The Health and Agriculture are advising people to stop raw milk consumption straight away.
    Health Spokesperson Iliesa Tora says the public should also refrain from consuming products made from raw milk because they can be infected with Brucella abortus, a form of the brucellosis.
    Other Microorganisms, Raw Food  |  Comments
  • FLORIDA: FDA probes dead mouse in Pepsi can claim

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:16am

    ORLAND BEACH, Fla. -- The U.S.
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    United Press International
    Wacky and Weird  |  Comments
  • MASSACHUSETTS: Health officials: Bacteria may have sickened swimmers

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:15am

    HOLLIS -- The Shigella bacteria may be what made people sick after swimming in Silver Lake in Hollis, health officials said.
    Preliminary results from a water sample taken at the lake Monday suggest the bacteria may be present.
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
    Other Microorganisms  |  Comments
  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Food outlets in Dubai safeguard themselves

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:14am

    Dubai -- Hotels and restaurants in Dubai are playing it safe on the issue of food hygiene by asking their customers to sign disclaimer notes when they order takeaways.
    Hotel Kempinski in Mall of the Emirates is getting its customers to sign a disclaimer note stating that its restaurants would not be responsible for the quality of food once it is taken out of th
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Gulfnews
    None  |  Comments
  • OHIO: Cleveland restaurant inspection reports are going online this year

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:12am

    Curious about the cleanliness of the kitchen at your favorite restaurant? Your father's nursing home?
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Plain Dealer
    Restaurant Inspection  |  Comments
  • OHIO: Produce growers fear national regulation

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:11am

    Ohio's produce growers are considering developing statewide food safety standards to get a step ahead of national rules now being considered - rules that Ohio's smaller growers fear could drive them out of business.
    "There's a growing consensus among produce growers that there are two tacks the state's growers can take: Do nothing, and we'll end up with st
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Ohio Farmer
    Plants  |  Comments
  • US: Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:09am

    A New York congresswoman is trying to rally support for a federal bill that would restrict antibiotic use in food animals just months after a similar measure tanked in California.
    Despite being voted down in Sacramento, a proposal that bans feeding antibiotics to cattle, hogs and poultry to increase their growth seems to be gaining momentum in the nation's capi
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    San Francisco Chronicle
    Animals, Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • MICHIGAN House panel passes bills on improving farm animal treatment

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:08am

    Michigan farms would have to meet the agriculture industry's current animal treatment standards by 2020 under legislation that moved ahead Thursday despite a host of complaints from opponents.
    Michigan and most other states have no laws addressing the health and welfare of farm animals.
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Fish for dinner: Overfishing easing in some areas

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:06am

    WASHINGTON -- Two years after a study warned that overfishing could cause a collapse in the world's seafood stocks by 2048, an update says the tide is turning, at least in some areas.
    "This paper shows that our oceans are not a lost cause," said Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lead author of both reports.
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
    Animals  |  Comments
  • US: Article draws fire for criticizing lax organic standards

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:05am

    A July 3 Washington Post story suggesting oversight of organic standards has been lax drew criticism from the Organic Trade Association and one of the sources quoted.
    One line in the 2,000-word article really popped out.
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    The Packer
    None  |  Comments
  • US: USDA Release: USDA opens 1st roof-top 'Peoples Garden' at office building in Washington, D.C.

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 11:04am

    WASHINGTON, July 30, 2009 - Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today cut the ribbon to open the roof-top garden project atop the offices of USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) at 1800 M Street, NW, in Washington, D.C.
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    USDA
    None  |  Comments
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    BARFBLOG: Food safety Bill passes House – will it mean fewer sick people?

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 2:32am

    While the websphere, blogsphere and twittersphere were ejaculating electrons about the potential passage of new food safety legislation by the U.S.
    Date Published: 
    30.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • US: House approves new food-safety laws

    Posted: July 31st, 2009 - 2:31am

    Associated Press
    Mary Clare Jalonick
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifI1woByWAcO_IIqfsv4o1i-PPPAD99P23QO0
    In a step toward a major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system, the House on Thursday passed legislation to require more frequent inspections of food-processing plants and to give
    Date Published: 
    31.jul.09
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments