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Jan 13, 2012

''Fatter cows, sicker people''

"The FDA has restricted the use of a minor antibiotic used by the meat industry. It's a small step to counter the widespread overuse of antibiotics on healthy animals, which helps create antibiotic-resistant bacteria that harms humans."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jan 10, 2012

''F.D.A. Creeps Forward''

"Last week, the Food and Drug Administration took a small step toward reducing the routine use of antibiotics in livestock, a practice that creates drug-resistant pathogens and threatens the effectiveness of some antibiotics in human medicine."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
May 19, 2012

''Eric J. Greene: Landmark food law in political limbo?''

"When President Barack Obama last year signed a bill hailed as a milestone in food safety, he stood at an exceedingly rare intersection where persuasive majorities of businesses, policymakers and consumers wanted the same thing."

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Food Hazards
Jan 8, 2009

''End misuse of antibiotics''

"While your editorial ('Delmarva travel warning,' Tuesday) made light of the dangers of driving behind trucks transporting intensively raised chickens..."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Oct 7, 2010

''Egg Inspections: The View From the F.D.A.''

"Contrary to your article, Food and Drug Administration inspections of the egg industry are on track."

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Food Safety
Nov 26, 2012

''Editorial: White House Dallies on Food-Safety Law''

''The Obama administration continues to drag its feet on a landmark consumer-protection law that could have made this week's Thanksgiving feast, leftovers and snacks considerably safer to eat.''

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Food Safety
Jan 11, 2013

Editorial: ''New FDA Food Safety Rules Are a Huge Step Forward''

"At long last, after seven frustrating and sometimes deadly decades of inaction, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the power it needs to recall tainted foods and require common-sense safety measures for farmers and food manufacturers. But the new food safety rules announced last week won't do much good if there's no money to enforce them, and therein lies the rub."

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Food Safety
Jan 10, 2013

''Editorial: Late Better Than Never for New Food-Safety Rules''

"The Food and Drug Administration has proposed the most sweeping changes in food-safety rules in decades. The changes being made under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which became law in 2011, are long overdue and should be implemented as soon as possible."

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Food Safety
Mar 23, 2012

''Editorial: Crack down on counterfeit drugs''

Strong, national 'track and trace' system is overdue.

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Drug Safety
Jan 16, 2013

''Editorial: An Unconscionable Delay''

"After two frustrating years of delay, the U.S. Food and Drug administration should soon have the power to prevent food-borne outbreaks rather than merely reacting to them."

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Food Safety