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‘Gene-edited crop regulations should be based on the product not the process’: UN’s FAO assesses impact of CRISPR and new breeding techniques on food

Food Safety News | 
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released a report on food safety considerations for regulating foods derived ...
Lack of hazard assessments could dampen approvals of cell-based meat

Lack of hazard assessments could dampen approvals of cell-based meat

Joe Whitworth | Food Safety News | 
An assessment of hazards in cell-based meat products has found considerable gaps in knowledge. There are several areas where data ...
Should lab-grown beef be labeled 'meat'? USDA denies cattle lobby petition to limit definition to animal sources

Should lab-grown beef be labeled ‘meat’? USDA denies cattle lobby petition to limit definition to animal sources

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has responded to petition sponsors with differing opinions about how lab-grown “meat” and ...
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Wealthy countries fear GM crops, while developing nations say they will ‘mostly help,’ poll shows

Joe Whitworth | Food Safety News | 
Up to 60 percent of people worldwide are worried the food they eat will harm them in the next two ...
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Harvard Law School urges USDA to allow ‘usual meat and poultry terms’ in labeling of cell-based foods

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
In some action on the petition front, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) acknowledges a request from the Harvard ...
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EU ‘farm-to-fork’ proposal opens door to gene editing, drawing fire from anti-GMO groups

Joe Whitworth | Food Safety News | 
The European Commission has set targets to reduce pesticide use and sales of antimicrobials by 2030. The Farm to Fork ...
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Center for Food Safety sues USDA to block organic certification of soil-free hydroponic crops

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
Federal Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler .... will be reviewing USDA’s decision to permit the “indoor agricultural evolution” known as hydroponics ...
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Plant-based, cell-based food producers resume lawsuit against Missouri over meat labeling law

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
That anticipated out-of-court settlement between Missouri and Turtle Island Foods is not happening. The many parties involved “do not believe ...
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Non-browning mushrooms, heart healthy soybean oil: Milestones in the quest to fine tune food with gene editing

Cookson Beecher | Food Safety News | 
White button mushrooms .... [T]hese little mushrooms represent an important agricultural milestone because they were the first gene-edited crop to ...
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Public sorting through what labels shoppers want on sustainable, lab grown meat, Consumer Reports finds

Food Safety News | 
Consumer Reports, published by the 7 million-member nonprofit Consumers Union, [recently] reported on survey results showing the public expects laboratory-produced ...
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Federal GMO labeling could cost $3 billion—more than government spends annually on food safety

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue ... is rolling out the new rules for labeling genetically engineered foods. The National Bioengineered ...
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USDA Organic board proposes approving new chemicals, removing Rotenone, for use in organic farming

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
Most consumers don’t know much about it, but for the $50 billion organic marketplace, it’s all about the details. And ...
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USDA again probes National Organic Program’s ‘weak’ import controls, putting label’s integrity at risk

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
The USDA’s National Organic Program completed more complaint reviews and investigations that it received in 2017.  It finished work on ...
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Lab-grown fried chicken? ‘Alternative’ meat company adds poultry options

Cookson Beecher | Food Safety News | 
In April, Memphis Meats [offered] taste samplings of fried chicken and Duck a l’Orange, both made by growing animal cells ...
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Funding for USDA’s National Organic Program tripled under Obama. What will Trump do with it?

Jay Lehr, Mischa Popoff | Food Safety News | 
[Editor's note: Mischa Popoff is a policy advisor at The Heartland Institute, and is the author of Is it Organic? Jay Lehr ...
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Trump administration’s three FDA commissioner picks all from venture capitalist sector

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
Something huge is going to be happening soon at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... it is all ...
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CDC investigating increasing foodborne illnesses and deaths linked to organic food

Cathy Siegner | Food Safety News | 
A newly published study of outbreaks linked to organic food concludes that while more data are needed to assess whether the ...
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Why poor may pay the most to satisify public’s ‘right to know’ about GMOs

Richard Fama | Food Safety News | 
The additional costs associated with product labeling, ingredient testing, insurance procurement, and continued consumer class action litigation over “natural” claims ...

Center for Food Safety’s opposition to GE salmon earns it ‘Luddite Award’ nomination

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Center for Food ...
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Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . For at ...

Americans care most about food safety, nutrition, cost, care less about GMOs, sustainability

Food Safety News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The hot topic of food ...

Genome sequencing speeds foodborne illness investigations

Lydia Zuraw | Food Safety News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In August 2015, whole-genome sequencing ...

Anti-microbial protein produced by GMO plants effective at killing E. coli on meat, produce

Food Safety News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of scientists ...

Wrong to discredit herbicide-resistant GMOs with C-word

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved for use in 15 states a new product called Enlist Duo, which is ...

State legislatures step back to let Congress try to resolve GMO labeling standards

Dan Flynn | Food Safety News | 
U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) may want to send some thank-you letters out to state legislative leaders who shut down ...

Dairy milk’s origins reveal mutation that could cause discomfort in some milk drinkers

Cookson Beecher | Food Safety News | 
“The milk that might change everything.” That’s the bold claim of a brand that will soon be sold as “a2 ...

Florida bills re-introduced to label GMOs and rBGH dairy

Food Safety News | 
Two Florida Democrats are again trying to pass bills to label some foods containing genetically modified organisms. Similar efforts died last ...

Antibiotic-resistant DNA sequences found downwind of feedlots

Food Safety News | 
There have been many concerns raised in recent years about the overuse of antibiotics on farms, but the effect such ...
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