From county extension agents to state agriculture commissioners to USDA, the public is being warned about “mysterious and unsolicited seed” shipments coming from China that may show up in their mailboxes. The unsolicited seeds are
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Dan Flynn
Editor Dan Flynn is a Northern Colorado-based writer and editor with more more than 15 years of food safety experience. As a public affairs professional, he worked with government and regulatory agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. His career as a journalist included working for newspapers throughout the West, from the Black Hills to Seattle. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing at Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times regionally by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.
Much of the old gang that fought for real GE labeling is back together for lawsuit against USDA
Natural Grocers, Citizens for GMO Labeling, Label GMOs, Rural Vermont, Good Earth Natural Foods, Puget Consumers Co-op, and the Center for Food Safety are plaintiffs in a new lawsuit against the USDA that some say…
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Japan’s export of raw intact beef to United States has more issues now than two years ago
Japan’s export of raw intact beef to the United States came in for review earlier this year in the form of an on-site equivalence verification audit by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. FSIS auditors…
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New York likely to become third state to ban PHAS in food packaging
A bill to ban the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances known as PFAS, that are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX, and many other chemicals in food packaging after Dec.31,…
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Harvard suggests FSIS go slowly on labeling ‘lab-grown’ meat and poultry
In some action on the petition front, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) acknowledges a request from the Harvard Law School’s “Animal Law and Policy Clinic.” The Harvard animal law program submitted a petition…
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DOJ does not want poultry executive going on safari before price-fixing trial
As expected, the Department of Justice attorneys don’t want Claxton Poultry President Mikell Fries to safari in Tanzania before he goes to trial on price-fixing.
Fries, one of four poultry executives charged with price-fixing and…
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Bats and maybe some scaly anteaters likely caused COVID-19 pandemic and they could do it again
An article published Wednesday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by eminent scientists suggests naturally infected bats and scaly anteaters called pangolins in Asia and Southeast Asia likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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At the start, Brashears finds Under Secretary for Food Safety job is all COVID-19 all the time
The day after she was finally confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mindy Brashears was back home in Lubbock, TX, giving an Ag Appreciation Day speech to the local Chamber of Commerce. After that, she’s found…
Continue Reading At the start, Brashears finds Under Secretary for Food Safety job is all COVID-19 all the time
African Swine Fever kept out of U.S. but pork remains threatened around the world
What if the coronavirus never made the leap from Asia to North America? COVID-19 would still be infecting millions in Europe, Africa, and Asia, but not in the United States or Canada. North Americans would…
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Thousands of poultry price-fixing victims are a challenge for the court
Poultry price-fixing has thousands of victims, making it impossible to notify them individually or accord all of their rights contained in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA).
Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys Heather Call and…
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