Food News You Can Use
Hello again, Food Rights Network, and happy new year! There’s been a lot of food news in the last two weeks, more than can fit in one post, so here are the highlights of what’s been happening:
- “EPA Weighs Nixing ‘Non-Crop’ Term To Better Tailor Pesticide Risk Studies“ (Inside EPA, 1/13/12)
- EPA Lists Gulf Waters as Impaired for Low Oxygen Levels, Iowa Department of Agriculture Says Move Undermines ‘Credibility’ With Big Farm Groups (Inside EPA, 1/13/12)
- CDC Says Shale Gas Drilling a Danger to Public Health and Food Supply (Slope Farms blog, 1/9/12 (full text of CDC email), and AP, 1/5/12). See the Center for Media and Democracy’s Fracking Portal on SourceWatch for more.
- Farm Land Grabs by Foreign Investors May “Compromise” Australia’s Food Security (Daily Telegraph, 1/4/12)
- “Ubiquitous Bisphenol A Linked to Adult Obesity, Insulin Resistance“ (Environmental Health News, 1/4/12)
- “FDA Takes a Baby Step on Factory Farm Antibiotics“ (Mother Jones, 1/4/12, and Guardian UK, 12/29/11)
- “FDA Sued Over Lack of Nanotech Petition Response“ (Food Navigator, 1/3/12) (more…)
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