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Labeling
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Food Safety News
Food Safety Advocates to USDA: Require Labeling for Tenderized Meat
A group of food safety advocates is calling on the Obama Administration to make good on its proposal to require labeling for mechanically tenderized meat. In a letter to the…
Food Safety News
Letter From The Editor: Proposition 37
By Dan Flynn
We need to talk about ballot initiatives. It a subject that does not come up much in the South and East, but state constitutions mostly in the West contain provisions…
Food Safety News
USDA Looking at Antibiotics Claims on Meat Labels
Amid growing consumer awareness about antibiotics used to raise food animals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is taking a look at some of the claims…
Food Safety News
USDA Takes Meat and Poultry Labeling to the Web
By Dan Flynn
A new web-based label approval system that will streamline the agency's review process for meat, poultry and egg product labels was introduced Monday by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service…
Food Safety News
Slimegate: Should USDA Require Labeling for LFTB?
Over the past several weeks, thousands of articles, blog posts, tweets and even Facebook statuses have weighed in on the debate over Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), now commonly known…
Food Safety News
Q&A with Elisabeth Hagen, Part II: Poultry, ‘Pink Slime’ and Labeling
Part II of a conversation with our nation's highest ranking food safety official, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Q: The agency's decision…
Food Safety News
Hagen: Tenderized Steaks Should Be Labeled
Unbeknownst to most consumers, many steaks sold in America are mechanically tenderized, a process that makes meat more tender but can transfer bacteria into the center of the steak. Though…
Food Safety News
Calls for GMO Labeling Keep Cropping Up
Like a persistent mosquito that keeps coming back no matter how many times you bat it away, the controversial issue of mandated labeling for genetically engineered foods in the United…
Food Safety News
Denver Food Plant Gets Warning Letter
By Dan Flynn
A rodent problem and labeling errors were cited in an inspection report filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after it visited the ADAO food manufacturing facility in…
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Fire Gel – Dangers and Labels
The New York Times today has a story that could be from a law school exam, having as it does a new (flammable) product, a label susceptible of multiple interpretations,…