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Senator Schumer calls for crackdown on falsely labeled “organic” products from China
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- September 24 2010
Concerned about certified-organic agricultural interests in his state and consumer confidence in the "organics" label, Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to “ensure that foreign imports, especially from China, meet the same high standards as domestically produced organic products.”
WTO rules against U.S. ban on chinese poultry
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- October 1 2010
A World Trade Organization (WTO) panel has determined that the United States has violated its trade obligations by refusing to allow Chinese chicken parts into the U.S. market, an action that was apparently taken in a 2009 federal spending bill that denied the use of any U.S. Department of Agriculture funding to establish or implement any measure that would allow the importation
FDA oversight of imported seafood lacking, says GAO
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 23 2011
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report criticizing the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) oversight of imported seafood safety
Federal prosecutors claim veal companies cost industry $500 million
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- March 11 2011
U.S. attorneys in New York have filed a complaint against three veal producers for allegedly exporting meat containing vertebral column to Japan, which had just reopened its borders to U.S. imports after a two-year ban over a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow”) scare
Food & Water Watch petitions to remove China from eligible poultry-exporters list
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- China, USA
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- January 21 2011
Food & Water Watch recently submitted a citizen petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to remove China from the list of eligible processed-poultry exporters to the United States
APHIS updates avian influenza rules
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- January 28 2011
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued an interim rule updating its highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) requirements for importing birds, poultry and hatching eggs
FSIS meetings target plan calling for mandatory catfish inspections
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 13 2011
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced two public meetings on a proposed rule requiring mandatory FSIS inspections of imported and domestic catfish and catfish products
EPA issues SNUR for multi-walled carbon nanotubes
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- 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
Imported food safety target of IOM meeting
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 23 2011
The Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Food and Nutrition Board has announced a June 7, 2011, meeting that will focus on the safety of imported foods "with the purposed of engaging science, technology, and policy personnel representing the global food supply chain, government agencies, and academia
Ninth Circuit rules USTR failed to conduct adequate FOIA request search
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- September 30 2011
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court decision and ruled that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR ) failed to conduct an adequate search for documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOI A) request by environmental interests relating to the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber agreement
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- Author - Mark Anstoetter