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Center for Food Safety Denounces Industry-Backed Efforts to Undermine Pesticide Protections
States' Rights To Protect Their Communities From Pesticides Are Threatened by State Legislation and EPA Rulemaking Petition ...
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Trump Administration Proposes Allowing GE Crops on Thousands of Acres of National Wildlife Refuges
Photo credit: Group of sandhill cranes. Photo by Patrick Myers, National Park Service. WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Trump administration has proposed to approve genetically engineered crops on national ...
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Policy Comments
CFS Comments to EPA Re: Current approach to the oversight of various products regulated as pesticides by EPA or new animal drugs by FDA ...
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Memo on the Discriminatory Nature of QR Codes and the DARK Act
QR codes are inherently discriminatory to the poor, the elderly, the rural and minorities. Half of low-income people do NOT have smartphones Almost half of rural Americans do NOT own a smartphone[i] ...
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Keeping Water Public: California's State Water Project
California’s recent drought has exposed deep problems with the state’s water infrastructure and sharpened conflicts over the state’s limited water supply, particularly between agriculture, ecosystems, ...
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CFS Sues FDA to Regulate Genetically Engineered GloFish
RT @protesterrabbit: Always buy seeds or use your own from previous year. I get mine from Mother Nature of Powell River, B.C. ! https://t.c… The legal battle around #chlorpyrifos continues. The 9th ...
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Borlaug Dedication Ignores Human and Environmental Consequences of the Green Revolution
(Washington, DC)—Today, as the U.S. Congress honors Normal Borlaug with a statue in the Capitol, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its international allies challenge the legacy of the Green Revolution ...
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Hawai'i Fails to Protect Children from Toxic Pesticides
HONOLULU— Today a bill died on the Hawai‘i House floor, and with it, immediate hopes to protect children and other impacted community members from the poisonous effects of toxic pesticides. After ...
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Planned Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Ignores Science, Public Health and Environmental Risks
WASHINGTON—In defiance of science and public health concerns, today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the mass release of billions of experimental genetically engineered (GE) ...
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McDonald's Announces Plan to Source Chicken Raised without Medically Important Antibiotics
“McDonald's is setting the bar for the entire fast food industry.” Washington D.C (March 4, 2015) – Center for Food Safety today applauded the announcement by McDonald's that the company will require ...
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Why Hydroponics Should Not Be Certified Organic
Hydroponics are crops that are grown in nutrient-rich solutions rather than soil. The United States Department of Agriculture currently allows hydroponic production to be certified organic. However, ...