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Eat at Your Own Risk: Flawed FDA Risk Assessments Strengthen Arguments for Labeling GMOs
The Food and Drug Administration's risk assessment process for GMOs lacks transparency and allows industry self-regulation.
Happy Birthday RW Johnson! A Legacy
There are too many similarities between quack remedies and Big Pharma.
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Big Pharma Urges Women to Fight for Access to Harmful Pill
The pharmaceutical industry is pressuring the FDA to approve a pill for “Female Sexual Disorder” that comes with some significant side effects for many women.
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It’s Time to Take Back the Organic Community
Citizens and farmers created organics as an alternative to industrial-scale agriculture and food production.
Update: Leahy/DeFazio Takes Vilsack to the Woodshed over Illegal USDA Organic Power Grab
Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Peter DeFazio sent a strongly worded letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack criticizing the recent power grab usurping power from the National Organic Standards …
FDA Approves Innovative New Device to Reverse Opiate Overdose
The Drug Policy Alliance praised the FDA for continuing to address the opiate overdose problem in the US.
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Drugmakers Agree to US Ban on Livestock Antibiotics
Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new US government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.
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US Plans to Speed Poultry Slaughtering, Cut Inspections
The overhaul would see processing speeds increase substantially even while responsibility for oversight would be largely given over to plant employees.
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FDA Opens Review of Rules for Over-the-Counter Drugs, Including Acetaminophen
The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a review of the way it ensures the safety and use of over-the-counter drugs taken by hundreds of millions of Americans, …
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We Have the Right To Know What’s in Our Food
Despite what companies like Monsanto will try to tell you, GMO foods may not be safe for you.