Food Production Daily
By Jane Byrne
Farmers and veterinary surgeons are giving antibiotics to animals often to prevent rather than treat disease, which is contributing to the problem of antibiotic resistance through food, claims a UK organic group.
Antimicrobials are chemicals such as antibiotics used in veterinary and human medicine.
Resistance to antibacterials in animals [...]

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Sea Grant Research News
Article from Bio-Medicine
In collaboration with Monsanto Chemical Company and California Sea Grant, Hawaii Sea Grant Director Gordon Grau is characterizing the efficacy and safety of Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone in raising aquacultured tilapia.

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CBS46.com
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ATLANTA — A new organic baby formula that is sold in the United States has an ingredient that has been banned in Europe. CBS 46 investigated how the formula is still allowed on our shelves.
New mother Renée Ross reached for Similac’s Organic Infant Formula for [...]

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USDA weighing compromise proposal
In late November, Cornucopia staff arranged a meeting with USDA Undersecretary Bruce Knight to discuss concerns and problems with the now-implemented mandate requiring pasteurization of all raw almonds grown by domestic producers for sale in the U.S.
For more than an hour, Cornucopia’s two codirectors met in Washington, DC with three high-ranking [...]

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By Jim Riddle
On December 28, 2006, the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Draft Risk Assessment on meat and milk from cloned animals.
The FDA concluded that animal cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), “results in an increased frequency of health risks to animals involved in [...]

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