OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog » Center for Food Safety http://www.organicauthority.com/blog Organic Authority - organic food, organic living, green living, organic thoughts. Sun, 19 May 2013 17:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 FDA Found Guilty of Unlawfully Holding Up Food Safety Regulations http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/fda-found-guilty-of-unlawfully-holding-up-food-safety-regulations/ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/fda-found-guilty-of-unlawfully-holding-up-food-safety-regulations/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:00:27 +0000 Jill Ettinger http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=11704 The FDA is guilty of breaking the law for failure to release regulations necessary to 2011's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), found a California U.S. District Judge earlier this week.]]> http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/fda-found-guilty-of-unlawfully-holding-up-food-safety-regulations/feed/ 0 Poultry Industry Self-Inspection Will Lead to More Chemicals and Antibiotics http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/poultry-industry-trying-to-take-inspection-into-their-own-hands/ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/poultry-industry-trying-to-take-inspection-into-their-own-hands/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 07:00:31 +0000 Jill Ettinger http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=11003 Poultry

A proposed rule that would give the poultry industry the authority to inspect its own birds at record speed for safety and health issues during slaughter is receiving major backlash from industry watchdog group, the Center for Food Safety.

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Attorneys for the Center for Food Safety and the non-profit environmental law firm, Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the USDA last week challenging their January 27 decision to deregulate genetically modified alfalfa.

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Tom Vilsack, the USDA Agriculture Secretary, is urging a compromise between parties rooted in an argument over genetically modified foods. In a letter he sent to both those on the pro side of GMO and those vehemently anti-GMO, he called for cooperation and compromise.

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