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Aug
03

CU refutes meat industry claims about antibiotics campaign

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Consumers Union this week fired back to a letter sent by meat producers to several members of Congress that called into question the accuracy of many facts laid out in our Meat On Drugs report regarding the industry’s use of antibiotics in livestock production. Released in June, ‘Meat On Drugs’ calls on meat producers to Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Corporate Behavior, Meat without Drugs | No Comments »
Jul
20

USDA will investigate unapproved antibiotics labels

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Just two weeks after Consumer Reports issued our Meat on Drugs report criticizing, among other things, USDA’s system for overseeing labels on meat and poultry products that are raised without antibiotics, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack sent a letter to Consumers Union indicating that the agency plans to establish a new standard and investigate the Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Food Labeling, Meat without Drugs, USDA | 8 Comments »
Jul
17

FDA says no more BPA in baby bottles

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New parents have one less thing to worry about after the FDA’s announcement today that baby bottles and kids’ sippy cups can no longer contain bisphenol A, or BPA, a common chemical in plastic products. Consumers Union has long advocated for banning BPA from baby bottles (and other products such as infant formula containers and Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Bisphenol A (BPA), FDA | 4 Comments »
Jul
16

220K people (including Giada DeLaurentiis) tell the FDA to reign in animal antibiotics

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When the FDA released new guidelines in April on the use of antibiotics in livestock, Americans were given 90 days to tell them what we thought.   By the time the comment period closed last Thursday, July 12, over 220,000 people had already written in to tell the agency:  you can do better. The new guidelines Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in FDA, Meat without Drugs | 1 Comment »
Jul
13

Superbugs in chicken point to need for antibiotics reform

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Chickens and bladder infections – two things you’d never expect to make headlines together – have captured attention this week after new findings were released showing a link between superbugs in chicken and urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans that are increasingly tough to treat. The common trait? A strain of antibiotic-resistant E. coli that researchers found in both Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in E. Coli, Food Safety, Meat without Drugs | 2 Comments »
Jul
03

31 companies tell Rep. Slaughter what’s in the beef

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There’s more to your meat than meets the eye, Representative Louse Slaughter wants you to know. The House member from upstate New York sent a survey to 60 grocery stores, restaurant chains, and meat producers this February inquiring about their policies on the use of antibiotics in the production of their meat, and the results Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Food Labeling, Livestock without drugs, Meat without Drugs | No Comments »
Jun
20

CU urges grocery stores to sell Meat Without Drugs

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To help combat the declining effectiveness of antibiotics, Consumers Union is launching the Meat Without Drugs campaign calling on grocery stores, starting with Trader Joe’s, to sell only meat raised without antibiotics. A staggering 80% of all antibiotics used in our country are given to livestock to help them grow faster and prevent them from Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Meat without Drugs | 11 Comments »
Jun
04

FDA ordered to follow its own orders, 35 years later

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On May 21, the Food and Drug Administration filed an appeal to overturn a decision by a federal court judge ordering the agency to take action on its own 35-year-old proposal that would ban the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed.  If the decision is upheld, FDA will be required to hold hearings to determine Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in FDA, Livestock without drugs, Meat without Drugs, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
May
31

FDA says no to ‘corn sugar’ name

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The FDA today rejected a petition filed two years ago by the Corn Refiners Association to rebrand High Fructose Corn Syrup as ‘corn sugar’. In a letter to the trade group, the FDA states that the association gave insufficient grounds for the name change, and contends that “sugar is a solid, dried, and crystallized food; Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in FDA, Food Labeling, Food Safety | No Comments »
May
25

Why the delay on new food safety rules?

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Scary news for salad eaters this week:  organic baby spinach from California was recalled in 16 states because of Salmonella contamination. It was because of these kinds of pathogens infiltrating our food supply – and in particular two outbreaks associated with spinach and peanut butter that claimed several lives – that the Food Safety Modernization Act was Continue Reading

Posted by Meg Bohne in Food Contaminants, Food Safety, Recalls, Salmonella | 3 Comments »
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