In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2013 |
''Will New Laws Make Your Food Safer?'' "Foodborne illnesses, which also include food poisoning, sicken about one in six Americans every year, leading to 128,000 hospitalizations, and an estimated 3,000 deaths. Despite improved techniques to help trace the sources of food contamination, current food safety regulations have not prevented dangerous contamination from happening in the first place." |
Food Safety |
| Aug 8, 2012 | "Got a tummy ache? It could well be something you ate. That's the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest assessment of food-borne illnesses, dropped on its web site with zero fanfare, not even a press release, Friday afternoon. It shows that that infection rates from most common food-related pathogens are either inching up or holding steady—and occurring at levels above the CDC's own targets." | Food Safety |
| Dec 27, 2009 | In a five-part series, "When Drugs Stop Working," the Associated Press explores the global issue of drug resistance focusing on how the crisis was created and efforts currently employed to help save the effectiveness of our critical medicines. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2012 | "Another page of the calendar, another deadline missed for the Food Safety Modernization Act implementation. The Food and Drug Administration continues to miss deadlines set by Congress for the new food safety law." | Food Safety |
| Aug 21, 2012 |
''Warning Over Deadly Outbreak of Salmonella in Cantaloupes Criticized'' "A deadly outbreak of salmonella in cantaloupes is stirring controversy about how transparent state and federal health authorities should be as they investigate the source of food-borne illnesses. Some food safety advocates are now calling on health officials to release the name of the farm and stores where its cantaloupes were sold." |
Food Safety |
| Oct 6, 2011 |
''VCs Take Their Case For FDA Reform To Capitol Hill'' “Venture capitalists are beginning to steer their investment dollars away from fledgling pharmaceutical and medical device companies, a phenomenon that will drive jobs and promising treatments overseas, according to a new survey of life sciences investors ... " |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Jan 31, 2013 |
USDA to Announce New School Snack Food Standards USDA to announce new updates to nutritional standards for school snack foods and beverages. |
Food Safety |
| Jun 15, 2011 |
''USDA Report: Studies Show Farms Need To Use Fewer Antibiotics'' "Research from around the world shows a pressing need to regulate and stem the widespread use of antibiotics on livestock, which can become reservoirs of bacteria resistant to drugs that were previously able to kill the bugs that can also sicken and kill humans, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 1, 2012 | "Amid growing consumer awareness about antibiotics used to raise food animals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is taking a look at some of the claims made on meat packages, including "antibiotic free." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Feb 8, 2013 |
''USDA Issues Ruling to Eliminate Junk Food from School Cafeterias, Vending Machines'' "At the urging of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently issued its ruling to eliminate the sale of all junk food in schools, an effort that Senator Gillibrand led as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Schools Act to reform child nutrition standards that was signed into law in 2010." |
School Food |
