In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Feb 12, 2013 |
Q&A: The Impact of Meal Standards on Kids' Health and School Costs The Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project’s recent health impact assessment (HIA) revealed that updating national nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages sold in schools could help students maintain a healthy weight and help schools increase their food service revenue. Project director Jessica Donze Black (JDB) and lead economic analyst Neal Wallace (NW) discuss the findings and what they mean for schools’ bottom lines. |
School Food |
| Feb 7, 2012 |
''Recall Reveals An Egg's Long Path To The Deli Sandwich'' "More than 1 million eggs bound for supermarkets, delis and convenience stores have been recalled since late January for possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that causes fever, nausea and diarrhea, and can be deadly in children and the elderly. No illnesses have been reported." |
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| Dec 11, 2012 |
Release Food Safety Rules -- Nearly 35,000 Signatures, One Message, Delivered to White House On Tuesday, December 11, The Pew Charitable Trusts delivered a petition signed by nearly 35,000 Americans to the White House, urging President Obama to release the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules. |
Food Safety |
| Apr 4, 2013 |
''Rep. Louise Slaughter On Antibiotics, Meat And Superbugs'' "80 percent of all the antibiotics we pump out these days goes into animals and animal feed — cows, hogs, chickens, turkeys and more across America, chowing down daily on antibiotics in their feed. To make them grow faster. To allow them to live in crowded conditions. Health officials are clanging the alarm bell, saying that is overuse that is breeding antibiotic-resistant superbugs that we can’t stop, that kill. The meat industry says, “chill out.” |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 18, 2010 |
''Report Says China Sold Bad Vaccines to Hospitals'' "A newspaper article by one of China’s best-known investigative reporters has reawakened a controversy over whether provincial authorities improperly stored vaccines in rooms without air-conditioning, rendering them ineffective, and then let them be administered to children." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 30, 2008 |
''Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming'' ''Factory farming takes a big, hidden toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America's economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock increasingly demanded by American consumers, concludes an independent, 2 1/2 -year analysis that calls for major changes in the way corporate agriculture produces meat, milk and eggs.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 4, 2012 |
''Report: U.S., peers must cooperate on import safety'' "Food and drug regulators in the U.S., Europe and other developed countries should offer training, technology and expertise to developing nations in Asia, Latin America and other regions to better assure the safety of imported products, states a new report." |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 14, 2013 |
Representative Slaughter Leads Effort to Protect Public from Superbugs Meat and poultry producers routinely feed antibiotics to healthy animals to make them grow faster and to compensate for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. These practices breed drug-resistant superbugs that make human diseases more difficult and costly to treat and more likely to cause death. Fortunately, on March 14, U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2013 (PAMTA) to restrict animal agricultural practices that threaten the public’s health. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 24, 2011 |
''Riding bus may improve health'' "Bus riders get a boost in physical activity just by walking to and from stops, suggests a new Metro Public Health Department study, whose findings are in line with national research." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Feb 8, 2013 |
Risks Associated with Compounding Pharmacies The Pew Charitable Trusts has identified 20 pharmacy compounding errors associated with 982 adverse events, including 67 deaths, since 2001. Contamination of sterile products were the most common compounding errors, though some were the result of pharmacists’ and technicians’ miscalculations and mistakes in filling prescriptions. |
