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Reports - Center for Food Safety
WEBEmpowering People & Defending the Earth: 25th Anniversary Victory Report
Food Safety & Food Recalls - Center for Food Safety
WEBThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the regulation and safety standards of approximately 80 percent of the food supply in the U.S., as well as the safety of pet foods. The remaining 20 percent, primarily meat, poultry and some egg products, is regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and ...
GE Food & Your Health - Center for Food Safety
WEBThe agency’s failure to require testing or labeling of GE foods has made millions of consumers into guinea pigs, unknowingly testing the safety of dozens of gene-altered food products. The FDA, in its response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety in 1998, admitted in court that it had made “no dispositive scientific findings ...
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WEB17 hours ago — WASHINGTON—Center for Food Safety (CFS) is endorsing the Toxic Free Foods Act, legislation re-introduced last week by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that would overhaul the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) process for determining the safety of chemicals used in the food supply.For years, FDA has allowed food manufacturers to designate various chemicals as 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS ...
Fungicides - Center for Food Safety
WEBFungicides are chemicals designed to treat or prevent plant disease. They can be sprayed on crops, applied to soil, or coated onto seeds together with insecticides. Fungicides have traditionally been applied mainly to fruits and vegetables. Over the past 15 years, however, the use of these potent chemicals has exploded on large-acreage field ...
Victories and Accomplishments - Center for Food Safety
WEBVictories and Accomplishments. For the last 25 years, Center for Food Safety has spearheaded the creation of a new food future, building an increasingly powerful food movement that is fighting against harmful industrial agriculture practices and promoting organic, ecological, and regenerative alternatives.
Is Lab-Grown Meat Healthy and Safe to Consume? - Center for …
WEBSep 20, 2020 — Lab-cultured "meat" is not always cruelty-free. To produce lab-cultured "meat," many producers extract animal cells from living animals. This is typically done via biopsy, a painful and uncomfortable procedure that uses large needles. If a company could scale up with this method, it would require a consistent supply of animals from which to ...
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 and Food Safety
WEBApr 10, 2020 — The Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University states that, "Yes, the coronavirus is killed by cooking to the safe minimum cooking temperatures specified by FDA and USDA." Read more about the minimum cooking temperatures for different foods. To date, there have been no known cases of COVID-19 …
FDA Should Require Labels for Animal-Derived Products, Petition …
WEB1 day ago — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), along with 16 other organizations, academics, physicians, and experts representing a wide range of interests, submitted a petition for rulemaking urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require products that contain animal-derived ingredients to be labeled with a disclaimer stating as such, identifying the species in the ...