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Colorado Cantaloupes Prompt Warning After Multi-State Listeria Outbreak
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The Environmental Working Group seems to exist for no other reason than to scare consumers away from the products of modern technology -- and to…
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Gregory Conko Discussing Cloning Translating Into Big Business and Safety Issues on CNNfn
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Safety, risk and the precautionary principle: rethinking precautionary approaches to the regulation of transgenic plants
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Comments Regarding the Constitutionality of FDA Treatment of Product Information
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Hidden Truth: The Perils and Protection of Off-Label Drug and Medical Device Promotion
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Scientific American Busts Organic Food Myths
Over at the Scientific American magazine blogs, science writer Christie Wilcox takes on some of the mythology surrounding organic foods, including the…
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Scientists Developing Fungus-Resistant Wheat
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Rethinking Regulations for Biotech Crops
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Sour Attitudes on Raw Milk
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The USDA’s Anti-Science Activism
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack must…
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Greg Conko on FDA Approval for Avastin
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A Peek Inside the Bureaucrat’s Mind
By now, this story about the city of Portland, Oregon, deciding to drain nearly 8 million gallons of water from one…
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There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient
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FDA Should Not Mandate Comparative Effectiveness Trials
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E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Farming … Again
Although it’s not 100 percent certain at this time, German health officials are becoming increasingly certain that the recent E. coli…
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Avastin and Breast Cancer: The Median is Not the Message
The New York Times ran an op-ed yesterday by oncologist Frederick Tucker urging the Food and Drug Administration to stand by…
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New York Times on “Paternalistic” Government
The Dining section of today’s New York Times has a short piece reporting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has lowered…
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Journalists Say the Darndest Things!
Today's Washington Post has an article about a new study confirming that the lifetime earning power of a college degree in…
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Feds Say “Prepare for a Zombie Apocalypse!”
Who says bureaucrats don’t have a sense of humor? The Wall Street Journal‘s Health Blog points to a…
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USDA’s War on Potatoes
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to “eliminate the ‘white potato’ — defined…
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Hormones in Milk: They Do a Body Good
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Prince Charles Says, “Let Them Eat Organic”
HRH the Prince of Wales delivered the keynote address at The Washington Post's "Future of Food" conference yesterday at Georgetown University.
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Obama’s Generic Proposal Is No Prescription for Health Savings
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Activists Sue USDA to Block Herbicide-Resistant Alfalfa
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Kenya Could Reap Big by Supporting Investments in Smart Science
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The GOP and the Health Insurance Mandate
With the health insurance individual purchase mandate looking more vulnerable than ever, Democrats are trying desperately to get some mileage out…
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The Rush to Condemn Genetically Modified Crops
In spite of more than twenty years of scientific, humanitarian, and financial successes and an admirable record of health and environmental safety, genetic engineering applied…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Liberate to Stimulate Index Increasingly, governments and environmental activists are demanding that producers of both new and old technologies prove that their…
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Reduce Burdensome Regulation of Medicines and Medical Devices
Liberate to Stimulate Index Over the past century, American consumers have benefited from thousands of new pharmaceuticals and medical devices to help…
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Improve Food Safety and Quality through Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Liberate to Stimulate Index Few issues are as important to consumers as the safety and quality of their food—from microbial contaminants to…
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Protect Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
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Ag Roundup: New GOP House May Strip Food Safety Law … Can GE and Non-GE Alfalfa ‘Co-Exist?’
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Sack Vilsack!
Something is very wrong at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The secretary, Tom Vilsack, is letting hypothetical claims by organic farmers–who produce less than 1%…
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A Spoonful of Sugar Will Soon Cost More
Despite many years of success with genetically modified plants, various environmentalists won’t stop trying to obstruct biotech foodstuffs. First they tried to frighten consumers away…
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Warner’s actions sometimes belie his words
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Activists Target Important Agricultural Fertilizer
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Improve Food Safety and Quality though Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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FDA bloat in another healthcare reform bill
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FDA recalls = future food fiascos
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More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
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The Food Industry Plays Regulatory Roulette
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The food industry plays regulatory roulette
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A Bold Proposal for FDA Reform
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More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off…
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The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…