Drug Administration

Speaking With One Voice: GM Food is Safe

Joanna LidbackMay 26, 2016

The debate is over: Genetically modified crops are safe. That’s the most important takeaway point from the massive study released last week by the National A...

Agricultural TechnologyFood LabelingFood Safety1 Comment 0

We Need an EPA Rooted in Sound Science

Bill HoranMay 12, 2016

Trust the science and play by the rules. It’s that simple. The Environmental Protection Agency should remember these two principles as it thinks about a c...

Crop Protection & Disease1 Comment 0

Looking Forward to More Accessible, Affordable Salmon

Bill HoranDecember 3, 2015

“People don’t want to eat it,” claimed Dana Perls, referring to genetically modified salmon. When this professional activist talked to the Washington Post, s...

Biofortification0 Comments 0

The Dr. Oz Show Needs a Warning Label

Bill HoranOctober 1, 2015

The wizard is a fraud. That’s what Dorothy and her friends discover in “The Wizard of Oz.” Many viewers of The Dr. Oz Show will have reached a similar con...

Agricultural TechnologyBiofortificationFood Safety0 Comments 0

Food Labels Should Not Confuse a Consumer

John Rigolizzo, Jr.March 6, 2014

“This is a huge deal,” said First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House last week. “You as a parent and a consumer should be able to walk into a grocery store,...

Food Labeling0 Comments 0

Educated Voters Beats Scary Talk in Washington State

Mark WagonerNovember 14, 2013

Voters in my home state of Washington delivered a resounding message on Election Day: We trust America’s farmers, they said. They also proved that a little i...

Agricultural TechnologyFood LabelingFood Safety1 Comment 0

New U.S. BSE Rule Conforms with International Standards

Ross KorvesNovember 7, 2013

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA has issued a final rule that will align the agency’s import regulations for bovine spongiform enc...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood SafetyLivestock, Animal Ag, Protein1 Comment 0

Just Say No to Washington State Labeling Initiative

Ted SheelyOctober 24, 2013

As voters in Washington state go to the ballot box on November 5 to consider special labels for foods with genetically-modified ingredients, I have a single tho...

Food Labeling0 Comments 0

New Role for FDA in Regulating Food Imports

Ross KorvesAugust 15, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released two proposed rules on U.S. food imports under the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (FSMA). Under ...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood SafetyInfrastructure1 Comment 0

The Politics of Food Labeling

John Rigolizzo, Jr.July 18, 2013

“There is no such thing as too much information,” said New Jersey lawmaker BettyLou DeCroce a few days ago. That’s definitely not true. We’ve all experienced...

Food Labeling10 Comments 0

Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda