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U.S. food industry highly consolidated, says Food & Water Watch

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • November 2 2012

Food & Water Watch has issued a report detailing how the consolidation of business along the entire food chain has resulted in farm losses, layoffs and higher prices with fewer choices for consumers

EPA issues SNUR for multi-walled carbon nanotubes

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a significant new use rule (SNUR) for a multi-walled carbon nanotube under section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); it would require manufacturers, importers or processors of the chemical to follow manufacturing and use conditions already reviewed by EPA

American Farm Bureau censures EU for GM crop moratorium

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
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  • July 30 2010

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFB) has issued a policy statement urging the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to “initiate a retaliation process” against the European Union over its de facto moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops

Bayer AG seeks to overturn $1.5 million jury award in GM rice case

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

Contending that conventional farmers’ claims for damages from the contamination of U.S. rice crops with a genetically modified (GM) variant are preempted by federal law, Bayer AG has filed an appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals from an adverse jury verdict rendered in bellwether cases that are part of multidistrict litigation involving thousands of farmers