November 18 2011 | Volume no: 53 | Issue no: 36
TOP STORIES
- FDA/USDA food safety budgets spared the ax by congressional conferees
- Engeljohn: Use the same interventions on non-O157s, but validate efficacy
EDITOR'S VIEW
BELTWAY NOTEBOOK
- Paying more for Thanksgiving dinner
- New FDA Chief of Staff
- Dueling antibiotics briefings
- Beginning Farmer Bill
- GMA Industry Affairs Veep
- Global food safety fund
- A Norovirus allergies connection
BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Biotech firms require more time for GE trait approvals, survey finds
- Bayer files another lawsuit against Dow's Enlist soybeans
- EU member-states debate harmonizing 'GM-free' labeling
- EU tightens controls over Chinese rice imports
- APHIS workshop
- Biotechnology Briefs
CODEX
- U.S. to seek approval of Codex hygiene guidance on melons
- Four Codex prep meetings scheduled for early next year
FDA
- POM pushes for import alert, while USP builds tools to stop economic adulteration
- FSMA-required seafood guidance in effect now, FDA advises
INTERAGENCY
- Farm groups, herbicide firm argue against petition to ban atrazine use
- Meeting suggests movement on national sodium reduction effort
- Agriculture interests donated nearly $4m to Super Committee members over 10 years
INTERNATIONAL
- Russia's WTO membership unlikely to boost U.S. poultry exports
- EFSA to join French safety agency in offering opinion on BPA
- EU member-states split over use of lactic acid to clean carcasses
- EFSA says poppy seed consumption could pose health risk
- Chinese feed firms sign up for new safety scheme
- EU member-states want species ID tests before relaxing feed ban
NUTRITION & OBESITY
- School meal standards go to OMB; potatoes likely off the hook
- EU survey finds public favors nutrition labeling over ad bans
- FSIS delays implementation of nutrition labeling rule until March
SUSTAINABILITY
- Brazilian sustainable coffee gains private and public support
- Packaging seen as part of EU's sustainability solution
