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• USDA Report Reveals Highest Rate Of Food Insecurity Since Report Was Initiated In 1995

  USDA News Release, Nov. 16, 2009: USDA's Economic Research Service's (ERS) today released its annual report on Household Food Security in the U.S., which revealed that in 2008, 17 million households, or 14.6 percent, were…

• Cargill Canola Stopped at Border (from Food Safety News)

  Cargill Canola Stopped At Border By FDA by Dan Flynn | Nov 17, 2009 It is not too far-fetched to say that trainloads of canola oil manufactured at Cargill Limited's seed processing facility at Clavet,…

• FDA and Oyster Policy (from Food Safety News)

  From Food Safety News: Caving under the weight of a political firestorm over its proposed rule to reduce Vibrio vulnificus poisoning from raw oysters, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday it is…

• FDA Issues 2009 FDA Food Code

  The FDA released the 2009 FDA Food Code last week. Here's an excerpt from the Press Announcement: The 2009 edition of the Food Code is the seventh full edition published by the FDA. The previous…

• FDA/CFSAN: New Report Recommends Enhanced Food Tracing Guidelines

  From an FDA Press Announcement (Nov 14, 2009): The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) today released a report from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), which recommends clear…

• FDA Warning Letters to Caffeinated Alcohol drink makers

  From the Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at caffeinated alcoholic drinks, saying it will pull them off the market unless manufacturers can prove the beverages are safe…

• Country of Origing Labeling -- Protectionism? Canada thinks so

  From the New York Times (Oct. 12, 2009 -- still worth posting): Canada Seeks Redress on Food-Labeling Law By CLIFFORD KRAUSS Ratcheting up a trade dispute with the Obama administration, Canada is asking the World…

• FDA Grants to Further Food and Feed Safety

  FDA New Release, Oct. 9, 2009: FDA Awards $17.5 Million in Grants to Further Food and Feed Safety The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has awarded 83 grants in FY2009 totaling…

• Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy

  I was a member of a panel on Food Imports a couple weeks. I wish I had read this book first. The blurb below is from the publisher. I haven't read the book yet, but…

• Ariana R. Levinson, Lawyers as Problem-Solvers One Meal at a Time: A Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  Ariana R. Levinson (Louisville) has published Lawyers as Problem-Solvers One Meal at a Time: A Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 15 Widener Law Review 289 (2009). Abstract from SSRN: Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable,…