Food
2003

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• Ever Heard of Hood Robin? - Devinder Sharma 30dec03
• Czech Republic Organic Products Market Brief -  USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 30dec03
• Mad Cow: Scientific Data Offer No Proof Of Beef Safety: Stanley Prusiner - Wall Street Journal 29dec03
• Mad Cow: As Probe of Infected Cow Spreads, So Does Worry -  Washington Post 27dec03
• Mad Cow: Mad Cow Alerts Began Years Ago: Enforcement of Feed Ban Was Assailed as Inadequate in 2000 -  Washington Post 27dec03
• Mad Cow: FDA Blasted Over Past Enforcement of Feed Ban -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 27dec03
• The "Food Justice" Movement: Trying to Break the Food Chains - The Black Commentator 25dec03
• Mad Cow Found In the U.S. for First Time - Wall Street Journal 24dec03
• Mad Cow Discovery Could Hobble Beef Sales in USA -  USA TODAY 24dec03
• Mad Cow Update: How to Limit Your Risk - Consumer Reports Dec03
• Mad Cow: Nations Ban U.S. Beef Imports On News of Mad-Cow Disease - AP 24dec03
• Mad Cow: Countries Take Steps To Ban U.S. Beef: Japan and South Korea, Set Bans, Plan Recalls / Wall Street Journal 24dec03
• Mad Cow: USDA Briefing on Discovery Of Mad Cow Disease in U.S. - AP 23dec03
• Mad Cow Disease Suspected in Washington State - Seattle Times, AP, Reuters, NY Times 23dec03
• Fish Farms: Ranching The Open Sea  - The Oregonian 23dec03 IMPORTANT ISSUE
• Got Hormones?  Stanley Bennett says, "We're in the business of marketing milk, not Monsanto's drugs" - Time Magazine 22dec03
• Global Consumption of Soft Drinks Rising 5% a Year: 2003 Global Soft Drinks Report - Press Release 12dec03
• Antibiotic-Resistant Germs: In Soil, Water, Food, Air -  Star-Ledger (NJ) 8dec03
• California: Fight to End Hunger Hits Snag with Governator -  SF Chronicle 8dec03
• VOCs in Food: Volatile Organic Compounds in Foods: A Five Year Study - Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 1dec03
• Food Biotech Is Risky Business - Wired 1dec03
• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03
• Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet - Paul Goettlich 16nov03
• Our Last Wild Meal - Jeremy Brown / Bellingham Weekly 13nov03
• River Fish Accumulate Human Drugs -  Nature Science Update 5nov03
• GM Food and Hunger: A View from the South - Devinder Sharma Nov03
• GM Industry and Science: BUSY EXPLOITING HUNGER -  Devinder Sharma 3oct03
• Co-op Imposes Ban on GM Ingredients - Reuters & Guardian (UK) 21oct03
• World Hunger Situation Worsening - CNN 16oct03
• How Many Will Go Hungry on World Food Day? -  UN World Food Programme 16oct03
• FAO Urges International Alliance Against Hunger on World Food Day -  FAO 16oct03
• Will Kids Buy Organic Food In School Vending Machines? - Wall Street Journal 15oct03
• Schools Seem in No Hurry to Buy Irradiated Beef -  NY Times 8oct03
• Perchlorate Found in Texas Milk -  Environmental Science & Technology 25sep03
• Bison Brewery: Organic Beer Maker Boils Down to the Basics -  Daily Californian 1oct03
• Deal With Russia Reached - High Plains Journal 30sep03
• Mountain of Butter, to Sell or Donate? - AP 29sep03
• Some States Start Trimming Prisoners' Meals -  NY Times 29sep03
• Iraq: Millions Remain Food Insecure in Iraq Despite Better Harvest -  UN World Food Program 24sep03
• rBGH Labeling May Harm Dairy Industry -  Badger Herald (Wisconsin) 22sep03
• Rocket-Fuel Chemical Toxin Found in Milk -  The Press-Enterprise (California) 20sep03
• The Real Story Behind the Food Crisis in Zambia -  Synthesis/Regeneration n.32, 19sep03
• Whole Foods: No Preservatives, No Unions, Lots of Dough - Fortune 15sep03
• Japan Wheat Buyers Warn Against Biotech Wheat in US - Reuters 10sep03
• LA School Board Bans Irradiated Food - Press Release / Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program 10sep03
• Resolution Prohibiting The Use of Irradiated Food - Los Angeles Unified School District / Board of Education City of Los Angeles 9sep03
• Chef Laurent Manrique's Home & Shop Targeted by Animal-Rights  - SF Chronicle 19aug03
• Growth Hormones in Your Milk by Monsanto: Got Posilac? -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 10aug03
• Man and Cow Bridging the Inequality Among Species - Devinder Sharma (India) 3aug03
• Antibiotics: WHO Urges End to Use of Antibiotics for Animal Growth - Washington Post 13aug03
• Olestra Label Not Required, FDA Says - NY Times 2aug03
• Food as a Source of Dioxin Exposure in the Residents of Bien Hoa City, Vietnam - Journal of of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Aug03
• The Truth about Irradiated Meat - Consumer Reports Aug03
• United Food and Commercial Workers Union Leader Charges Wal-Mart Hurts Labor  - SF Chronicle 30jul03
• Mercury: UN Committee Recommends New Dietary Intake Limits for Mercury - Press Release / WHO 27jun03
• An interview with Carlo Petrini, the founder of the International Slow Food Movement - NY Times 26jul03
• Is Organic Food Provably Better?  - NY Times 16jul03
• Looser Rules Proposed for Health Claims on Food Labels  - NY Times 11jul03
• F.D.A. Requires Food Labels to Reveal a Lesser-Known Fat  - NY Times 9jul03
• rBGH: Monsanto Sues Oakhurst Dairy Over Advertising, Labeling Growth Hormone AP 8jul03
• Russians Forced to Eat GM Food -  Pravda (Russia) 4jul03
• U.S. Is Urged by Panel to Tell Women About Dioxins  - NY Times 2jul03
           Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure - National Academies 1jul03
  • Report Brief
  • Executive Summary & Introduction
• Irradiation: Rad-Food Laws Gutted - Food Irradiation Alert! Jul03
• Horizon Organic Brands Purchased by Dean Foods - PRNewswire 30jun03
• Japan: Kikkoman Using Only Non-GM Soybeans: 27 Percent of Japanese Market -  The Japan Times 22jun03
• UK: Supermarkets Tell Blair: We Won't Stock GM  - The Observer (UK) 8jun03
• UK: GM Feed Alert over Organic Chickens - The Independent (UK) 8jun03
• Biotech Revolution Costing Organic Farmers  -  AP 5jun03
• Irradiated Ground Beef Approved for Schools  - Washington Post 30may03
  • Irradiated Ground Beef Technical Requirements Schedule – GB-2003 / USDA 29may03
• McDonald's Sues Italian Critic for £15m ($24,725,994 USD) - Ananova 28may03
• Farmed Salmon Looking Less Rosy  - NY Times 28may03
• Beef Industry's Dirty Secret: U.S. Lags on Safety Standards  - Wall Street Journal 27may03

• Buy Locally Grown Food  - Christian Science Monitor 14may03

• How Food Safety Can be Improved  - Philadelphia Inquirer 19may03

• Dakota Beef to Supply Organic Beef to EU  - PRNewswire 15may03

• Trans Fat Oreos: Lawsuit to Ban Oreos Trans Fats - AP 12may03

• Bush Admin Won't Force Companies To Produce Healthier Food or Better Labels - AP 8may03

• Irradiation: SureBeam Food Irradiation Facility Bars Consumer Organization from Tour - Press Release 7may03

• Processors Make Organic Food Big Business  - AP 7may03

• Gaio Tagatose - a sweetener, which is extracted from the milk product lactose - Candy Business 7may03

• The Futures of Food Michael Pollan / NY Times Magazine 4may03

• Trans Fat Oreos: Lawsuit Filed to Stop the Marketing and Sale of Oreo Cookies to Children PRESS RELEASE 1may03

• Meat Production and Consumption Grow -  Vital Signs 2003 May03

• ConAgra Settles with 6 More on E. coli: Fatality Included -  Denver Post 9apr03

• Africa: The Famine that Wasn't  - Christian Science Monitor 9apr03

• Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War in Iraq  - NY Times 6apr03

• How Corporate Power Taints Safety Rules - Anna Lappé / Book Review / SF Chronicle 30mar03

• Exposure to Pesticides Is Lowered When Young Children Go Organic  - NY Times 25mar03

• Acrylamide in Food - Database of Activities in the EU - (link to external website) European Commission 11mar03

• Soda Pop Lobby Beats Citizen Groups on House Junkfood Bill: Soda Jerks Stop Vote on HB1866 - CCCS 10mar03

• Fast Food and TV Triple the Risk of Obesity - AP 8mar03

• Organic Food has More Healthy Compounds - Reuters 7mar03

• Junk Food: School Districts Defy Soda-Sales Ban - PASASF Press Release 6mar03

• Junk-Food Industry Fights School Food Standards - PASASF Press Release 5mar03

• Irradiation: European Study Links Food Irradiation to Cancer  - FoodProductionDaily.com 5mar03

• Irradiation EU: Minutes’ statement of the EU Scientific Committee on Food on Food Irradiation 5mar03

• FDA Warns Against Use of Drug in Animals  - AP 4mar03

• Children: Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets - EHP Mar03

• China: Got Milk? The New Craze In China Is Dairy Drinks  - Wall Street Journal 28feb03

• Letter on Food Irradiation to Dr. Mark McClellan, Commissioner FDA -  Public Citizen and The Center For Food Safety 26feb03

• Weakened Organic Food Rule Under Attack - SF Chronicle 26feb03

• Comparison of the Total Phenolic and Ascorbic Acid Content of Freeze-Dried and Air-Dried Marionberry, Strawberry, and Corn Grown Using Conventional, Organic, and Sustainable Agricultural Practices - Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 25jan03

• Dioxin Contamination in US Feed Supplement sent to Canada  - The Producer 24feb03

• How Safe is Our Food?: Book review - Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism - SF Chronicle 24feb03

• Fatal Degenerative Neurologic Illnesses in Men Who Participated in Wild Game Feasts --- Wisconsin, 2002 - MMWR  21feb03

• Origin-Label Worries Emerge Among Meat Industry Players  - Wall Street Journal 17feb03

• Weakening of Organic Standard Is Considered  - NY Times 14feb03

• Junk Food: San Francisco Middle School Banishes Cafeteria Junk Food - PASASF Press Release 13feb03

• Frankenfish. Genetically Engineered Superfish are Just Around the Corner - Jeremy Brown / The Whatcom Watch 12feb03

• Irradiated Ground Beef: Weis Markets to Sell SureBeam® Irradiated Ground Beef in 6 State Region - PRNewswire 10feb03

• Irradiated Beef: Zapped Beef Catching On?  - Capital Press Agriculture Weekly 7feb03

• Irradiated Ground Beef: Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Offers Customers Irradiated Ground Beef - PRNewswire 3feb03

• Mad Cow Disease : Now Fish Too Can Suffer Version of Mad Cow Disease - ANI 2feb03

• Bitter Blocker: Revolutionary Molecules Turn Bland Food Bodacious  - Globe and Mail (Toronto) 1feb03

• Acrylamide: Germany to Slow Cook Chips Due to Cancer Fears - Reuters 25jan03

• Why Food Safety Will Continue Driving Growth in Demand for Organic Food - Dr Charles M Benbrook / EcoFarm 2003 24jan03

• When in Rome, Learn from the Romans  - The Prairie Writers Circle 24jan03

• Meat Packing Industry's Forward Contracting, Captive Supplies Personifies "Monopoly Capitalism" - Agribusiness Examiner 23jan03

• Food Pyramid: The Government's Symbol Of Healthful Eating Still Reigns Supreme. But Should It? - Washington Post 15jan03

• JUNK FOOD: San Francisco School District Considers Ban  - SF Chronicle 14jan03

• You Want Fries With That? Michael Pollan / Review of FAT LAND / NY Times 12jan03

• WHO Infiltrated by Food Industry  - The Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• Rebuilding the Food Pyramid  - Scientific American Jan03