Food safety round up 3rd October 2012

 

News
Tories look to amend food safety legislation
Globe and Mail
Four years after the Conservative government was hit by a deadly outbreak of tainted meat, it has yet to produce a widely accepted assessment of whether Ottawa has enough inspectors to keep Canadian food safe. The need for such an analysis was one of
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Globe and Mail
EU food safety watchdog to rule on GM study
Irish Times
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will give its opinion this week on a controversial new study which links tumours in rats with genetically modified maize and weedkiller. The Food and Chemical Toxicology journal published the study earlier this
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FDA says it can’t afford new foodsafety law
Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON — Citing a lack of money, the Food and Drug Administration said it is having difficulty implementing expansive new rules to improve food safety, nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed them into law. FDA Commissioner
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FoodSafety Alert: Peanut Butter Recall Expands Daily
Food Product Design
WASHINGTON—On Sept. 22, Trader Joe’s was the first retailer to recall peanut butter made by Portales, N.M.-based Sunland, Inc., that has been linked to multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bredeney infections that has sickened 30 people in 19 states. On
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GM, Conventional, And Organic Food Safety
Science 2.0
In the first place, we have the problem of defining what we even mean by food safety. Truth be told, we don’t have any idea what constitutes “safe” food beyond the fact that we may have a history of consuming it without obvious incidence. Even here, we
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Strategic Diagnostics Sells Assets Of Food Safety And GMO To Romer Labs
RTT News
(RTTNews) – Biotechnology products provider, Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (SDIX:Quote), Monday announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its Food Safety and GMO businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 million. The company will now
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Meat safety fears prompt tough questions from Grits, NDP
CBC.ca
MacKay said the Conservatives have introduced new legislation to improve food safety and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s ability to respond quickly to problems, but blamed the NDP for standing in their way. “When we have tried to do this, made
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FDA chief says scarce funding hobbles sweeping food safety regulations
Yahoo! News (blog)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is having difficulty implementing expansive new rules to improve food safety, nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed the standards into law, because of a lack of funding.
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Safety scares spark safe food revolution
Viet Nam News
Safe food is now in increasing demand. During the last nine months, a series of food safety and hygiene violations have been exposed by domestic media, ranging from rotten pork and antibiotic-laden fish to imported fruits with excessive pesticide
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Blogs
Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food Safety’s Position on
By Heather
Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high
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