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Comments to the USDA regarding Country of Origin Labeling of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken
In January of 2009, USDA published a final rule on COOL that covered Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken, Goat Meat, Wild and Farm-Raised Fish and Shellfish, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng, and Macadamia Nuts. Almost immediately, a number of countries challenged the COOL requirements for muscle cut meat commodities, saying that the US COOL regulations discriminated against the importing country’s product.
Categories: Food Safety, Imports, USDA
Tags: antibiotics, meat
CU urges National Organic Standards Board to discontinue use of antibiotics in organic apple, pear production
Poll: More than 80 percent don’t know or don’t think antibiotics used to treat disease in apple, pears
Categories: Organics
Tags: antibiotics
Call grows for action on antibiotics in food animals
There’s been a growing call for action in recent weeks to address the threat to public health posed by the routine use of antibiotics in healthy food animals. It’s no wonder given years of inaction by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and mounting evidence that the overuse of antibiotics in meat production is getting worse. Continue Reading
Categories: Food Safety, Meat without Drugs
Tags: antibiotics, meat
CU letter to FDA to revoke approval for use of ractopamine in pork
FDA should prohibit the use of antibiotics in livestock except for treatment of disease
Categories: FDA, Food Safety, Livestock without drugs
Tags: antibiotics
The Overuse of Antibiotics in Food Animals Threatens Public Health
Experts weigh in on the connection between antibiotic use in animals and the loss of effectiveness of these drugs in human medicine
Categories: CDC, Food Safety, Meat without Drugs
Tags: antibiotics
What’s in a name: Reading meat labels about antibiotic use
Consumers can have a very high level of trust that any meat and poultry labeled “USDA Organic” has never been given any antibiotics at any stage of production. Organic producers follow strict USDA guidelines in order to use the label on their products, which indicates that many healthful and environmentally sound practices were employed in Continue Reading
Categories: Meat without Drugs
Tags: antibiotics, meat, meat labels, organic
