Cornucopia’s Take: USDA is asking for stakeholder input on key issues of the GMO labeling law set to go into effect in 2018. We believe the most important issue here is to ensure that the USDA includes all gene-editing technologies in this labeling law. All Forms of Genetic Engineering Must Require Labels Organic Insider by… Read more »
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Egg Comes First in Fight Over What It Means to Be Organic
Bloomberg by Deena Shanker An aerial photo from August 2014 shows six hen houses, several with two floors, and a seventh under construction at the Green Meadow site in Saranac Big Agriculture may see a broader threat in new government regulations. Congress comes to the rescue. A decade-plus effort by organic farmers, animal welfare advocates, and consumer… Read more »
Food Safety
[This Alert Is Over] Action Alert — Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15 UPDATE 12-20-14: Read Cornucopia’s full comments to the FDA on the draft food safety rules. Click Here. In response to recent widespread, and sometimes deadly, outbreaks of foodborne illness, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act… Read more »
Action Alert — Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15
[This alert is over–comment period now closed] In response to recent widespread, and sometimes deadly, outbreaks of foodborne illness, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) charging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with improving their oversight of the food industry. But the intense blowback the FDA received last year from family-scale farmers and… Read more »
Food Safety Petition and Action Alert
[This alert is over–comment period now closed] Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15 to FDA Please take action by reading the full Action Alert available on the Cornucopia website: https://www.cornucopia.org/food-safety/ Although improved over the first draft the FDA’s proposed food safety rules are still onerous enough that they could… Read more »
Raw almond producers fight fed rules
[The Cornucopia Institute is helping coordinate the legal strategy for the almond growers challenging the raw almond pasteurization mandate. But the farmers need your financial help to continue this expensive fight. Please consider making a donation to our raw almond legal defense fund. You can earmark your donation using the note field.] Associated Press By… Read more »
Showdown at the Organic Corral
Dueling Corporate Interests Wait to See What the New Trump/Perdue Administration Will Do with the Pending Updates to Organic Animal Welfare Standards Industry watchdog releases detailed analysis of pending rule One of the pending regulations released in the final days of the Obama administration, and put on hold by the Trump White House, was an… Read more »
Unsafe Eggs Linked to U.S. Failure to Act
Washington Post By Lyndsey Layton Public health officials closed the books this month on an outbreak of salmonella illness that had sickened more than 1,900 people since May and led to the largest recall of eggs in U.S. history. Two Iowa egg farms drew most of the blame, triggering a congressional investigation, a federal criminal… Read more »
What You Won’t Find on Horizon’s Packaging
The carton may look the same. But Danone NA devalued all of the Horizon milk on grocery store shelves by dropping contracts with small dairies throughout the Northeast. At a time when authentic organic dairies are disappearing, the brand is doubling down on factory “organic” milk. Despite the happy cows depicted on the packaging, factory… Read more »
When It Comes to Food Packaging, What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us
Ensia by Elizabeth Grossman Credit: dvs It’s almost impossible to imagine life without flexible, transparent and water-resistant food packaging, without plastic sandwich bags, cling film or shelves filled with plastic jars, tubs and tubes, and durable bags and boxes. While storing food in containers dates back thousands of years, and food has been sold in… Read more »
