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Beekeepers and Public Interest Groups Sue EPA Over Bee-Toxic Pesticides 21 Mar 2013 | 08:42 pm
Lawsuit seeks to address bee Colony Collapse Disorder and demands EPA protect livelihoods, rural economies and environment Today, a year after groups formally petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protect...
The Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Biotech” Earmark in Senate-passed Spending Bill 21 Mar 2013 | 02:03 am
Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Se...
Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically engineered seafood 20 Mar 2013 | 07:20 pm
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE...
New Petition asks FDA to Prohibit Yet Another Unnecessary Antibiotic Use 15 Mar 2013 | 08:25 pm
Agriculture organizations ask FDA to halt antibiotic use in fuel byproduct sold as animal feed According to a petition submitted today to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), antibiotic use in etha...
EPA Improperly Withholds Information Vital To The Public Health 2 Mar 2013 | 10:54 pm
Despite the threat of a lawsuit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is continuing to improperly withhold information vital to the public health, acting in direct dereliction of its dutie...
New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetically Engineered Salmon 27 Feb 2013 | 12:32 am
The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today!
Justice In Food Poisoning Indictment Is Too Little, Too Late 23 Feb 2013 | 05:19 am
Four Peanut Corporation Of America Executives Indicted For 2009 Food Poisoning Episode Linked To 9 Deaths, 700 Sick Center for Food Safety Calls for Immediate Passage of Food Safety Accountability Act...
Citizen Action Pushes Dairies To Declare Hazardous Substance Releases 22 Feb 2013 | 12:55 am
Following years of violations, threat of lawsuits forces industrial dairies to publicly report data Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS)...
Groups Challenge Proposed EPA Approval of Dangerous New Pesticide 21 Feb 2013 | 12:35 am
Eight national non-profit organizations concerned with the environment, food safety, children’s health, bee and bird conservation, and pesticide management, sent two letters calling on the Environment...
Groups File Lawsuits to Stop Groundwater Pollution from Industrial Diaries 15 Feb 2013 | 10:15 pm
Citizens react to dairies’ failure to change practices and regulators’ wait-and-see approach Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) – repr...
