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New USDA Organic Label effective as of 21 October 2002

• Food Irradiation Position of ADA  - J Am Diet Assoc. 2000

• U.S. Sets Organic  Standard -  Washington Post 21dec00

• Listeria Outbreak in Cargill Turkey Poses Problems for Meat Industry -  WSJ 20dec00

• Meat Industry Looking To Bush To Roll Back Rules - AP 19dec00

• Rendered Animal Protein Products Imports From Europe BANNED - APHIS 19dec00

• Canadian Grocery Stores Hit by Protests - Edmonton Sun 11dec00

• Hollywood Goes Organic - Delicious Living  8dec00

• Glickman says national organic standards coming soon -  AP 7dec00

• POPs Residues in U.S. Diets - Panups 4dec00

• Where Have All the Black Farmers Gone?  -  CCOF Magazine Winter00-01

• Common Food Additives - Safe on the Plate - Delicious Living Dec00

• Organic Products Boom Encouraged by Czech Government - Prague Post 29nov00

• Fear of Mad Cow Disease Spreads - Paris - AP 10nov00

• Court upholds California milk standards-  SFE 7nov00

• FDA Searching for new way to say irradiation - So it doesn't alert consumers that it IS being irradiated -  AP 4nov00

• Food Irradiation & Nuclear Weapons Safe-guarding the public from human-made radiation  -  Z Oct00

• Household Food Security in the United States, 1999 - USDA Food Assistance & Nutrition Research Report No.8  Fall00

• ERS Updates Foodborne Illness Costs  - Food Safety/ USDA Sep/Dec00

• Rice Yield Doubled In Chinese Experiment Without Genetic Engineering or Pesticides - NYT 28aug00

• Chronology of Food Irradiation Events and Food Products Approved for Irradiation in the United States - GAO 24aug00

• Cultivating the Truth About Organics and John Stossel's Lies - SFC 21aug00

• Three Scenarios for the Future of America's Food - Yes! Summer 2000

• Great Lakes fish called human health hazard -  Globe and Mail 26jul00

• Interest in Organics Surges Around the Globe -  SFC 19jul00

• Coffee from the ground up: Plusses and Minuses - Chicago Sun-Times 3jun00

• Federal Auditors Urge More Oversight Of USDA Meat and Poultry Inspections - WSJ 22jun00

• Health Canada Rejects Olestra as a Food Additive  - CSPI 22jun00

• Wash Hands and Clean Food Surfaces after Handling Raw Meat - AP 19jun00

• Mothers and Others' Top Ten List of Fruits and Vegetables to Buy Organic  - The Green Guide Jun00

• Have Some Dioxin With Your Meal  - Hartford Courant 23may00

• Dioxin Report Means ‘Eat Less Meat, Cheese’ - CSPI News Release 17may00

• Irradiation - Nuked Meat Makes it to Grocery Shelves: SHELF DEATH - PCCMEP 16may00

• Status of 2000 Food Aid Needs and Shortfalls - World Food Programme 15may00

• Status of 2000 Food Aid Needs and Shortfalls Overview - World Food Programme May00

• New USDA Organic Standards: THE FIGHT AIN'T OVER YET - SFC 5apr00

• Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition - (press release) Worldwatch Paper 150 Mar00

• Food Additives and Drugs Definitions -  Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - US Code 23jan00

• Irradiation Comments - Positive List of Food and Food Ingredients to be Authorized for Irradiation  - European Commission 11jan00

• Organic Food Proven Healthier - BBC 3jan00

• Dioxins in the Food Chain: Background  - USDA  (after 1999)

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy  - USDA Sep99

• Berkeley Unified School District's Food Policy  Aug99

• Nutrition and Biodynamics: Evidence for the Nutritional Superiority of Organic Crops - Virginia Worthington /  Biodynamics v.224, Jul/Aug99

• Farmers Market Binds Generations  - Paul Goettlich / South Bend Tribune 22jul99

• Aspartame - World's top sweetener is made with GM bacteria  - Independent 20jun99

• Requirements for Irradiating Foods - FDA May99

• Knowledge, Technology and World Food Security  - D. Gale Johnson / University of Chicago 15apr99

• They Are What They Eat: Kids' Food Consumption and Pesticides  - EWG 25feb99

• Effects of Dietary Roxarsone Supplementation, Lighting Program, and Season on the Incidence of Leg Abnormalities in Broiler Chickens - Poultry Science 1feb99

• Irradiated Foods  - H. Julius / Friends of the Earth 1999

• Plants and Population: is there time? - Nikos Alexandratos, Global Perspective Studies Unit, FAO 5dec98

• Why So Much Hunger? - Based on the book "World Hunger: 12 Myths" LAPPÉ, COLLINS & ROSSET 1oct98

• Dietitians Preferred a HACCP system over Irradiation or Chemical Rinses for reducing risk of Foodborne Disease  - ADA  Aug98

• Feds Plan Food Illness Computer Web  -  AP 22may98

• USDA Bows to Pressure on Organic Standards from More than 200,000 comments  - PANNA 18may98

• Ann Veneman Does Not Support Organic Farmers -  Take A Stand For Organics -  Coastal Post - 12may98

• National Food Processors Association (NFPA) Comments on the National Organic Program 30apr98

• Turning the Tables on Food-Borne Illness' - Dan Glickman 19mar98

• rbST & rBGH Milk - Potential Public Health Impacts Of The Use Of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin In Dairy Production  - JECFA Sep97

• The MSG Deception - Paul Goettlich / South Bend Tribune 26aug97

  • MSG: Letter to FDA by George R. Schwartz, MD 29mar99

• FDA Resisted Proposals to Test Aspartame For Years -  Star Tribune 22nov96

• Progress for Some, but Not for All  - FAO Fact Sheet 13nov96

• Microwave: The Alarming Effects of Microwave Apparatus on Food and Humans  - Perceptions May96

• Olestra - FDA Review of Unpublished Procter & Gamble “Fecal parameters” Study 26dec95

• World Hunger -- Position of American Dietetic Association  - J Am Diet Assoc. 1995

• Irradiation of Food - The Food That Would Last Forever - Dr. Gary Gibbs / Avery 1993

• Recommendations for Submission of Chemical and Technical Data for Direct Food Additive and GRAS Food Ingredient Petitions - FDA May93

• Ann Veneman - Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Agricultural Community in Fresno, California 30may92

• Irradiation from Experiencing Quality, Margaret M. Wittenberg Jun88

• Comparison of Nutrients in Human and Cow Milk -  Food and Healing 1986

• Variation in Mineral Composition of Vegetables - Soil Science Society of America Proceedings 1948

• Meat Inspection Bill Passes the Senate Direct Consequence of Disclosures Made in Upton Sinclair's Novel, "The Jungle." - NYT 26may1906

• Nuking America's Dirty Food: Another Assault on Public Health & Consumer Choice - Ronnie Cummins / Pure Food Campaign

• Tesco's Reasons for Buying Organic  - Tesco is one of England's Largest Superstore Chains

• Food Web Simply Explained

• Horizon Organic Horizon Holding Company

• Food Additives to Avoid - CSPI Undated