By Nicholson Price This story is still developing, so this post will just be a quick pointer. You may have seen news stories about how FDA isn’t inspecting foods, and 90% of seafood isn’t getting inspected. And these are all worries about problems that we think might happen. Well, the problems have started. Salmonella-contaminated chicken…
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By Kuei-Jung Ni The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) that governs the making of international standards on food safety will reach its 50th anniversary in October 2013. The international institution was established in 1963 under the auspice of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Its mandate is to approve…
By Scott Burris Last week, the American Journal of Public Health published a PHLR paper by Michelle Mello and colleagues calling for our field to identfy “critical opportunities” for public health law. Critical Opportunities are legal interventions that target important public health problems. They may have a strong evidence base but be underutilized (like alcohol…
By Ching-Fu Lin In a congressional letter last month, 76 House Members urged United States (US) Trade Representative Michael Froman to push for strong and enforceable sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). SPS measures – which have been viewed as an area with very little room for…
By I. Glenn Cohen If you were watching television this week you may have seen this clip of a taste test for hamburger meat grown in a “test tube” in London discussed here. The meat was grown from stem cells from existing cows used to grow 20,000 strands of tissue. Costing more than $330,000 to…
By Nicholson Price One fear about GMOs is that they will escape whatever controls are placed them and end up in the wild. A version of that story appears to have come true in the wheat industry this week, when the USDA announced that farmers in Oregon had discovered an unexpected and unapproved patch of…
By Nicholson Price Monsanto has been receiving quite a bit of press recently. Marchers in over 400 cities protested the company and the GMOs it makes took place a few days ago, arguing that foods should be labeled if they contain GMOs. More broadly relevant to the biotech industry and GMOs generally, a few weeks…
By Joanna Sax I’ve become increasingly interested in GM crops, in general, after the recent Petrie-Flom Conference on the FDA in the 21st Century. I know there is a lot of discussion and controversy about genetically-modified (GM) crops. I want to pick-up on a topic that is related to GM crops – that is, the…
