Opinions
Opinions
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| Apr 30, 2009 |
"A survey last month by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 93 percent of the nation's 663 million cardholder agreements allow the company to raise any interest rate at any time for any reason." |
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| Oct 17, 2012 |
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics Following the deadly superbug outbreak in 2011, a recent report published by the NIH indicates new antibiotics could help fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. Senior Officer of Pew's Antibiotics and Innovation Project Nicole Mahoney discusses the new report and the need for a comprehensive strategy to prevent superbug outbreaks.
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Antibiotic Innovation |
| Apr 19, 2012 |
"A 20-state outbreak of salmonella, which includes Pennsylvania, demonstrates the pervasiveness of food-borne illness, the vast scope of the challenge to ensure safe food, and the federal government's slow pace of implementing reforms." |
Food Hazards |
| Aug 16, 2011 |
''Putting politics into food safety'' "A civilized, educated nation that embraces lax food safety regulations is a nation willing to accept the consequences of contaminated food. That willingness can be deadly. That’s not the path the United States should take." |
Food Hazards |
| Jan 15, 2013 |
''Putting a Price Tag on Safe Food'' "In addition to the 3,000 deaths it causes each year, contaminated food is very expensive. The cost of food poisoning in this country comes to $14 billion a year, according to a July 2012 study published in the Journal of Food Protection, including the medical expenses of the 128,000 who are hospitalized annually. That figure does not include the millions of dollars that each food recall costs the company involved, the legal expenses from victims' lawsuits or losses incurred by other companies when consumers hear, for example, about contaminated cantaloupes and then avoid all cantaloupes, including those that are perfectly safe." |
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| Oct 26, 2012 |
PTA President to Parents: Support the New School Meals In a new opinion editorial in Education Week, Betsy Landers, National PTA President, comments on the importance of parental support for the new school lunches. |
School Food |
| Dec 22, 2012 |
''Prevention Matters More Than Peanuts'' An opinion editorial by Sandra Eskin, director of the Food Safety Campaign at the Pew Health Group, about the Food Safety Modernization Act and prevention of foodborne illness. |
Food Safety |
| Aug 31, 2012 |
''President Fumbles on Food-Safety Law'' "Twenty months after President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act, the landmark legislation appears to have suffered the same fate as another important measure: the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. Both historic laws have yet to become a reality because the Obama administration hasn't completed the work of turning the laws' language into practical regulations, then issuing that guidance to the public." |
Food Safety |
| May 8, 2009 |
''Piggish Capitalism Endangers Us All'' "Even if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 8, 2013 |
''Pew Report Shows Flaw in Tracing Food-Safety Lapses "Twenty-two weeks. That’s how long it took federal health officials to determine the contaminated food source after the first person was infected in a 2011 outbreak of salmonella that swept across 34 states, sickened 136 people and led to one of the largest national recalls of ground turkey." |
Food Safety |
| Apr 28, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on Nightline - ABC News'' "Washington, D.C. - Robert Martin, senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses the two main findings from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's report Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 3, 2010 |
''Pearls before swine: It's time to cut the use of antibiotics in farm animals'' "Everybody knows that it is possible to have too much of a good thing -- and that is true also of antibiotic drugs, the great lifesavers of modern medicine." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 15, 2009 |
"We don't add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections. That's because we understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating 'superbugs' resistant to medication." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 6, 2013 |
''Overused Antibiotics are Becoming Ineffective'' "As a nation, we need to exercise greater care with our use of antibiotics, in both humans and animals, so that these medications remain effective in treating serious bacterial infections." |
Antibiotic Innovation, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 6, 2011 |
''Our View: Food safety program cuts mindless, shortsighted'' "For the last month we have heard more than we needed to know about the nation's debt, and our government's inability to bring spending under control." |
Food Hazards |
