ethicurean.com - 10/6/2009
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This is the first in a short series on the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement hearings held September 22-24 in Monterey, CA.
I packed a suit for three days of USDA hearings over an industry-proposed national food safety agreement [pdf] for leafy greens. In retrospect, I ...
ethicurean.com - 10/6/2009
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ethicurean.com —
This is the third in a series about
the USDA hearings on an industry proposal for a...
food-safety marketing agreement for leafy green vegetables. My first post describes what marketing agreements are and do; my second covers the first day of ...
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Meet your greens, part 3: Taking the stand against the ...
ethicurean.com - 10/6/2009
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ethicurean.com —
This is the second in a series of
posts on my week in Monterey, CA, where I...
attended the first of seven USDA hearings around the country on an industry proposal to create a national marketing agreement on the safety of leafy greens. (Marketing ...
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Meet your greens, part 2: Industry seeks to outfox FDA
grist.org - 10/14/2009
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grist.org —
by Tom Laskawy Having read and listened to
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s attempts at ground beef-related damage...
control in the wake of the recent food safety revelations, I’m left to wonder if the USDA simply needs to get out of the ...
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Can the USDA really keep our food safe?
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Can the USDA really keep our food safe?
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... But it’s not just the meat industry that is using the USDA to shield itself from more rigorous FDA oversight. The current food safety disaster in ground beef is on the verge of being replayed over our vegetables. Elanor Starmer at the Ethicurean has a must-read three-part report (1, ...
A Primer on Current Food Safety Politics for Non Policy Geeks
EcoSalon —
... For a truly chilling, eyewitness account of what it actually looks like when industry writes its own rules with the help of the USDA, check out Elanor Starmer’s posts on the Ethicurean. She sat in the hearing rooms for three days straight so this is truly eyewitness. Day One, ...
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