Latest Issue
June 14 2013 | Volume no: 55 | Issue no: 13
TOP STORIES
- Fruit juice company’s ex-marketer to test FSMA whistleblower protections, charges expiration dates were ignored
- Former undersecretary and industry question FSIS about needle-tenderized label proposal
EDITOR'S VIEW
BELTWAY NOTEBOOK
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK
- PASS THE FARM BILL!
- FROMAN GETS NOD FOR USTR
- FOOD WASTE CHALLENGE
- SPLENDA GETS “DOWNGRADED”
- ROETZEL ADDS TO FDA PRACTICE
- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE STANDARD
- BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court rules against patenting human genes
ADDITIVES
BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Maine’s legislature joins Connecticut in passing GE labeling law
- Pigs fed GE corn and soy developed health issues, study suggests
- APHIS extends comments on GE varieties resistant to old herbicides
- Appeals court rejects “preemptive” lawsuit by growers against Monsanto
- Study finds pest resistance to Bt crops, but not where farmers plant refuges
- Farmers file class action lawsuits in response to GE wheat debacle
FDA
INTERAGENCY
- Senate passes Farm Bill on 66-27 vote; House to consider next week
- Catfish amendment sunk in Senate Farm Bill
INTERNATIONAL
LABELING & ADVERTISING
- Canada to target beef, pork and poultry for COOL retaliation
- Industry resistance delays new labeling schemes in South America
NUTRITION & OBESITY
- Appeal process begins for NYC ban on large sugary drink servings
- Four senators call on Nickelodeon to introduce nutrition standards for ads
- Rat study links sugary foods to cocaine
- Brownell leaves Yale obesity center for broader focus at Duke
PACKAGING
- New BPA bills introduced in Senate and House
- Parliament members claim the EU knows enough to regulate endocrine disruptors
