Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Oct 2, 2012 |
New Federal Guidelines Impact School Cafeterias "In school cafeterias across the country, students are seeing big changes on their lunch trays. Responding to the growing childhood obesity epidemic, the USDA approved new rules for the federal school lunch program, the first such changes to student lunches in more than a decade." Source: National Public Radio |
School Food |
| Oct 2, 2012 |
''FDA Stakeholders Worry About Sequestration'' "Representatives from the FDA and industry expressed serious concerns about the potential impact of sequestration Monday, saying it's not a good time to shortchange the agency when it's under so much pressure to help bring innovative new drugs to market." Source: POLITICO |
Medical Safety |
| Oct 2, 2012 |
''FDA Chief Says Scarce Funding Hobbles Sweeping Food Safety Regulations'' "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. FDA chief Margaret Hamburg said the implementation process has been slow because Congress has not provided sufficient funds to meet the law's ambitious demands." Source: Reuters |
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| Sep 25, 2012 |
''Peanut Butter Recall Widens To Other Nut Butters After Salmonella Outbreak'' Late Friday, Trader Joe's announced a voluntary recall of its Salted Valencia Peanut Butter because it may have been contaminated with a rare strain of salmonella. These recalls remind us that much of our food chain is dependent on just a handful of suppliers. More consumers are affected when fewer companies supply a larger portion of the market says Sandra Eskin, project director of the food safety campaign at the Pew Health Group. Source: National Public Radio |
Food Safety |
| Sep 21, 2012 |
''Report: State Prescription Monitoring Programs Falling Short'' "Forty-nine states, including Maine, now operate a prescription monitoring program - or are putting one in place - to track the powerful pain medication dispensed by pharmacies. These databases have already helped in the fight to curtail diversion and abuse of prescribed opioids. But the way they operate - and how the data they collect gets used - varies widely from state to state." Source: The Maine Public Broadcasting Network |
Medical Safety |
| Sep 19, 2012 |
''Foodborne Illness Victim Becomes a Poster Child For Change'' Since the 2006 death of two-year-old Kyle Allgood, his parents have become advocates for better food safety regulations. They are currently involved in a campaign to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, a law signed by President Barack Obama in January 2011. Source: Boise Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Sep 17, 2012 |
Expert Discusses Changes to School Lunch Programs Jessica Donze Black of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project recently appeared on C-SPAN to talk about recent changes to the operating costs of school lunch programs. Topics included the history of the program, the role of the Agriculture Department, qualifications for participants, and nutritional requirements. Source: C-SPAN |
School Food |
| Sep 10, 2012 |
''Front & Center: Keeping an Eye on Food Supply'' The Orlando Sentinel asked Sandy Eskin, project director of the Food Safety Campaign with the Pew Health Group, about the latest foodborne illness outbreak and the legislation in limbo drafted to avert such tragedies. Source: Orlando Sentinel |
Food Safety |
| Sep 7, 2012 |
Pew Scholars Win Both 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Awards Both winners of the 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award are current Pew Scholars; Valerie Horsley, 2010 Pew Scholar and Mary Gehring, 2011 Pew Scholar. Source: Genetics Society of America |
Biomedical Research |
| Sep 6, 2012 |
''Don’t Forget Your (Kid’s!) Lunch'' "It’s back-to-school time! School supplies? Check! Medical forms completed? Check! Clothes for the first day? Check! School lunch?. . ." Source: MomsRising.org |
School Food |
| Sep 4, 2012 |
''Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny'' "Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and poultry are not required to report how they use the drugs — which ones, on what types of animal, and in what quantities. This dearth of information makes it difficult to document the precise relationship between routine antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic-resistant infections in people, scientists say." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 28, 2012 |
''NIH Superbug Outbreak Highlights Lack of New Antibiotics'' "As doctors battled a deadly, drug-resistant superbug last year, they turned to an antibiotic of last resort. But colistin, as it’s called, was discovered in 1949. Between 1945 and 1968, drug companies invented 13 new categories of antibiotics, said Allan Coukell, director of medical programs at the Pew Health Group. Between 1968 and today, just two new categories of antibiotics have arrived." Source: The Washington Post |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| Aug 27, 2012 |
''Who Determines Safety of New Food Ingredients?'' "Grocery shoppers examining colorful packages bearing long lists of hard-to-pronounce ingredients might take comfort in the belief that those substances were deemed safe by the government. But that's not the case. Over the past 15 years, the vast majority of new ingredients added to U.S. food never received a safety determination from the government." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Additives |
| Aug 23, 2012 |
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics On August 22, researchers at the National Institute of Health released a scientific paper detailing the use of advanced genetic technology to trace a deadly infection, untreatable by nearly every antibiotic, that spread through the NIH’s Clinical Center last year. Source: |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 23, 2012 |
''Turning Point: Sohini Ramachandran'' Sohini Ramachandran, a population geneticist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, received two high-profile awards this year. In June, she was named a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and in February, she received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York. She plans to use the grants to distinguish herself in a fast-moving field. Source: Nature |
Biomedical Research |
