Groups Say Latest Seafood Guidance May Not Protect Consumers
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Lydia Zuraw
Consumer advocates are concerned that the recently updated federal guidance encouraging pregnant women,
nursing mothers and children to consume two to three servings of fish and shellfish a week oversimplifies its species recommendations. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Mercury Policy Project (MPP), along with mercury researcher Philippe Grandjean,
think that the Food and Drug Administration...
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KSU Researchers Develop Genetic Test to Help Detect E. coli in Beef Cattle
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News Desk
Researchers at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, have developed a genetic test that could
help the cattle industry more rapidly and accurately detect pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7. Leading the project is Lance Noll, veterinary biomedical science graduate student; T.G. Nagaraja, university distinguished professor of diagnostic
medicine and pathobiology, and Jianfa Bai, assistant...
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Congresswomen Propose Solution to Issue of Pathogens as Adulterants
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Lydia Zuraw
Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) are introducing a bill in the House of Representatives
that would give the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) the authority to declare any foodborne pathogen an adulterant and recall contaminated products. The “Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act” amends the Federal Meat
Inspection...
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