Food Safety
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With all of the problems in our food system, it can be hard to find the information we need to make smart choices about the food we eat. Use this page to keep up to date on food safety issues, including pesticides, aspartame, flouridation, irraditation, toxic sludge, mad cow disease, and more.
OCA and Happy Egg Co. are both committed to raising the animal welfare standard of eggs and reducing customer confusion.
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April 23, 2021
Rogers, Ark. – Happy Egg Co. and Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced that they have resolved a consumer-protection action that OCA filed against Happy Egg Co. in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on March 24, 2020, concerning labels mentioning “pasture” on Happy Egg Co.’s egg cartons and marketing
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Tyson’s Motion to Dismiss rejected, Case Will Move Forward
Contact:
Katherine Paul, katherine@organicconsumers.org, 207-653-3090
Zach Corrigan, zcorrigan@fwwatch.org, 202-276-0159
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — The District of Columbia Superior Court rejected the motion to dismiss a
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FINLAND, Minn. — March 30, 2021 — The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced it has resolved the consumer protection action filed by OCA on May 20, 2020, against Smithfield Foods, Inc., the world’s largest producer of pork products, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
This action concerned Smithfield’s marketing of its pork products. OCA is represented by
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Whether you’re excited about new meat alternatives, or you’d rather eat regenerative and organic grass-fed beef, we can all agree on one thing: Fake meat, like all
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The Organic Consumers Association (“OCA”) announced today that it and Peapod Digital Labs, LLC (“PDL”) have worked together regarding the “Free From” label on “Nature’s Promise” brand food products sold through PDL’s affiliates, including Giant, Stop & Shop, and other major supermarkets.
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On Jan. 28, the Center for Food Safety filed a legal brief in its challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2019 approval of soy leghemoglobin (heme), a color additive used to make Impossible Foods’ eponymous plant-based burger, the Impossible Burger, appear to “bleed” like real meat.
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Mary Beth Kirkham hadn’t studied microplastics when she was invited to co-edit a new book about microplastics in the environment—but something stood out to her about the existing research. “I had read in the literature that . . . cadmium and other toxic trace elements [are] increased when we have these particulate plastics in the soil.
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The Health and Human Services Department has agreed to an industry-backed plan to effectively strip the FDA of oversight of certain genetically modified animals — the latest instance of Trump political appointees overriding the agency's scientists.
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Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Animal Equality (AE), jointly with Champion Petfoods USA Inc. (CPF), today announced that they have resolved two consumer protection actions filed by AE and OCA on July 24, 2020 and August 10, 2020, respectively, against CPF in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today sued The Kraft Heinz Company (“Kraft”) for misleading consumers by marketing and advertising cheese products containing milk from cows administered recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) — also known as recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) — as “natural.”
The action was filed on behalf of OCA by Richman Law & Policy in D.C. Superior Court
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