Food Safety
Do you know what's in your food?
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.
Researchers pocket $500,000 of taxpayer money to turn edible plants into mRNA vaccine factories. Report: Claire Robinson
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Of all the issues we cover, one in particular has all of us at Civil Eats deeply concerned: the widespread overuse of plastic in food and agriculture. From the myth of recycling and the millions of tons of plastic in the oceans, to the abundance of “forever chemicals” and microplastics making their way into our food and our soil, plastics are contaminating the food chain, polluting the environment, and making us sick.
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Thanksgiving offers an opportunity for people to come together and give thanks for the bounty of an organic harvest. Unfortunately, many Thanksgiving meals are produced by chemical farming practices that utilize hazardous pesticides, genetically engineered (GE) crops, and petroleum-based synthetic fertilizers.
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Maine voters approved an amendment Tuesday that enshrines the “right to food” — the first of its kind in the United States. The amendment to the state’s constitution declares that all people have a “natural, inherent and unalienable right” to grow, raise, produce and consume food of their own choosing as long as they do so within legal parameters.
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A new study analyzing publicly available data tells us that organic farming lowers dietary risks of exposure to pesticides. Though these data aren’t surprising, the study creates a new concept called a dietary risk index, or DRI. This is an important contribution for both researchers and consumers. DRI provides new data analyses for researchers interested in pesticides and dietary exposures, and includes information that
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As you may have heard, Bill Gates has been buying up farmland across 18 U.S. states through various subsidiary companies. In all, he now owns about
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The fact that there are serious issues with the food supply is no longer a secret. There is evidence that toxicity levels in the food supply are rising, and that conventional agriculture has become a leading cause of environmental pollution and destruction.
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OCA and Happy Egg Co. are both committed to raising the animal welfare standard of eggs and reducing customer confusion.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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