Food
2002

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New USDA Organic Label effective as of 21 October 2002

• Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health (Exec Summ.) - IATP & Sierra Club Dec02

• ConAgra E. Coli-Tainted Meat: ConAgra Stymied Us, California says  -  Denver Post 31dec02

• Irradiation: Parents Protest U.S. Schools Irradiated Meat Plan  - Reuters 13dec02

• ConAgra Recalls 36,000 pounds of Chicken Contaminated with Plastic: Class 1 Recall could cause Death - USDA 12dec02

• Wampler Foods Plant's Sanitation May Have Link to Deadly Bacteria  - NY Times 11dec02

• Super-Resistant Bacteria in Your Chicken Dinner: Of Birds and Bacteria - Consumers Union Report 11dec02

  • Eco-Labels on Chicken Explained

• Organic Food Purchased by 58% of America: Hunger for Healthy Options - PRNewswire 10dec02

• Radioactive Wheat Export Scam Exposed - Sunday Herald (Scotland) 1dec02

• John Tyson is Against Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)  - AgWeb 4dec02

• Acrylamide: Exploratory Data on Acrylamide in Foods -  FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition 4dec02

• Meat Industry Says Bacteria Inevitable  - NY Times 3dec02

• Poor in India Starve as Surplus Wheat Rots -  NY Times 2dec02

• The Whole Foods Cure for Herpes -  The Austin Chronicle 25oct02

• HAACCP Enforcement - Address to the American Meat Institute (AMI), New Orleans, LA 25oct02

• Milk from Cloned Cows. . . YUM! - Taste For Life Dec02

• Milk and Dairy Products in the 21st Century - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Dec02

• Microwave: Plastics and the Microwave  - FDA Consumer magazine Nov/Dec02

• Bayer Corporation Urged to Drop Poultry Antibiotic  - ENS 19nov02

• USDA Directs Meat Processing Plants to Test for Listeria -  AP 18nov02
• Wampler Reopens Plant: Accelerated Production Pace - Meat News 14oct02
• Zapped Meats Headed Our Way: Food scares renew efforts to irradiate beef, chicken CAROL NESS / SF Chronicle 10nov02
• Farmed Salmon is Crap - Chef Michael Cimarusti / Fishlink Sublegals 8nov02
• Irradiation: Resolution Against Irradiated Meat -  Berkeley School Board 6nov02
• Critics Take Aim at Guidelines on Standards for Food Safety  - NY Times 2nov02
• Malawi: Structural damage: The causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis  -  World Development Movement 29oct02

• Food Additive Link to Tantrums in 25% of Toddlers  -  London Times (UK) 25oct02

• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Enforcement - Dr Garry McKee address to the American Meat Institute (AMI) 25oct02

• We Label Orange Juice, Why Not GM Food?  - Commentary / Cropchoice 21oct02

• India Starvation in Spite of Plenty: The Kalahandi Syndrome - Devinder Sharma 19apr02

• Food Irradiation Approved by USDA  - SF Chronicle 22oct02

• Hunger Deaths in India, Amid Plenty  -  AgBioIndia 22oct02

• Organic-Food Labeling Rules Help Guide the Health-Minded  - Wall Street Journal 20aug02

• Farmers and Officials Learn New Organic Rules - AP 20oct02

• SureBeam Up 36%, OMB Approves Food Irradiation Rules  - Dow Jones Newswires 18oct02

• Canadian: Feds consider regulating Organic Standards  - The Western Producer (date?)

• Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman's World Food Day Presentation - Transcribed by Mindfully.org 16oct02

• Pilgrim's Pride Issues Record Meat Recall: 27.4 Million Pounds - AP 14oct02

• Largest Meat Recall in USDA History: Wampler Foods 27 Million Pounds  - AP 12oct02

• Labeling: FDA Pressure &  Big Food Processors Pour in Money to Defeat GMO Labeling Initiative - Fishlink Sublegals 11oct02

• Irradiated Food can now be Labeled  "COLD PASTEURIZATION"  - CBC 10oct02

• FDA Allowing Food Companies To Change Irradiation Label to "Cold Pasteurization"  - Reuters 9oct02

• Pharm Phresh Frankenfoods  - LA Weekly 7oct02

• New Organic Food Rules to Level Playing Field - Reuters & USDA 6oct02

  • The New USDA Organic Label Katherine DiMateo / Taste For Life Sep02

• Fat Marketing Refined by Food Companies  - AP 30sep02

• Scientists Look in Food for Acrylamide, a Cancer-Causing Compound - Reuters 30sep02

• Free Trade Fallout: Seeking lobsters, Miskito Indians find death  (Food as a global issue)  - SF Chronicle 29sep02

• Random Testing for E. Coli Is Set for Meatpacking Sites - NY Times 26sep02

• Listeria Kills 13 in Northeast - AP 17sep02

• Bad Meat - Eric Schlosser / The Nation v.275, n.8, 16sep02

• Cloned Food Products Near Reality -  Washington Post 16sep02

• Organics Wines Take Root - SF Chronicle 21aug02

• Global Food Fight Over Soy Sauce Labeling -  SF Chronicle 25aug02

• Food Travels Between 1,500 and 2,500 Miles From Farm to Table - Environment News Service (ENS) 21nov2002

• USDA Changes Its Policy On Inspecting Meat Plants  - Wall Street Journal 15aug02
• Irradiation Is No Quick Fix for Beef JOAN CLAYBROOK / Wall Street Journal 8aug02
• Irradiation: Supermarkets Test Appetite For Meat That's Irradiated - Wall Street Journal 7nov02
• Famine as commerce: Africa's tragedy - Devander Sharma / AgBioIndia 6aug02
• Multistate Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Associated with Eating Ground Beef [from ConAgra] - MMWR 26jul02
• E. coli and the Beef Industry NGIN 26jul02
• FDA Says Pregnant Women Should Limit Tuna Consumption - AP 26jul02
• ConAgra Recalls Beef Products After 16 People Report Illnesses: Recall now at 19 million pounds - Wall Street Journal 22jul02
  • ConAgra Expands Its Recall Of Beef to 18 Million Pounds  - AP 19jul02
• horizontal gene transfer: GM Genes Found in Human Gut - The Guardian (UK) 17jul2002
• Dangerous Drug Waste in Dutch Food -  Irish Independent 8jul02
• Nutrition: Today's Fruits, Vegetables Lack Yesterday's Nutrition - Globe and Mail (Canada) 6jul02
• Drug genes could enter food chain  - New Scientist 6jul02
• Neotame Artificial Sweetener Approved by FDA: But is is Safe? - mindfully.org 6jul02
• Irradiation: Nuclear Lunch: The Dangers and Unknowns of Food Irradiation -  Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture / Island Press Jul02
• Bacteriophages as Antimicrobial Agent on Foods: Intralytix, Inc. Filing of Food Additive Petition - FDA Docket No. 02F-0316 22jul2002

• Roundup/Acrylamide: Acrylamide In Cooked Foods: The Glyphosate Connection - Monsanto Poisoning Consumers with Pesticide Residues - ISIS Report 1aug02

  • Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory -  Science v.297 5jul02
  • Acrylonitrile: Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen 9th Report on Carcinogens

  • Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory -  Science v.297 5jul02

  • Environmental Degradation of Polyacrylamides -  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 1jun97

• Dairy Queen Serves Irradiated Burgers  - BEEF Magazine 1jul02
• U.S. Opposes Right to Food at World Summit - Peter Rosset / Food First 30jun02
• Food Label Bill Killed by Committee: Would have brought more information - AP 29jun02
• Grass [ -Fed ] Roots Revolution: Will the New Beef put Corn-Raised Cattle Out to Pasture? - SF Chronicle 19jun02
• Antibiotic-Tainted Milk Recalled: People Allergic to Antibiotics are at Risk  - AP 15jun02
• General Mills Goes Incognito To Sell Cereal That's Organic -  Wall Street Journal 7jun02
• McDonald's Apologizes for Selling Fries with Beef Flavoring as Vegetarian -  AP 5jun02
  • Hindus, vegetarians sue McDonald's over frying process  -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2may01
• Meat is Making the Rich Ill and the Poor Hungry  - Jeremy Rifkin / Guardian 17may02
• Junk Food Industry PR Hype Presented in SF Chronicle as News 11may02
• Organic Foods Really DO Have Less Pesticides: New Study from Consumers Union 8may02
• Acrylamide in Heat-Processed Foods - National Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden [Unpublished] rev.26apr02
• Acrylamide in some Fried and Baked Foods - WHO/FAO/ 26apr02
• Should we drink cloned milk? FDA will decide -  AP 25mar02
• Power Steer - Michael Pollan / NY Times 31mar02
• Irradiation of Imported Fruits, Vegetables: FDA Seeks Comments - ENS 18mar02
• Butter and Cream Tested in US-Supplied Cattle Feed Toxin Scare -  Irish Times 12mar02
• MAD COW DISEASE Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts - GAO-02-183 25jan02
• UK organic group Soil Association says drug residues found in eggs  - Reuters 18jan02
• Weaknesses in Meat and Poultry Inspection Pilot Should Be Addressed  - GAO-02-59 17dec01 (released 7jan02)