Category: Issue 302
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FDA Continues to Study Use of Symbols for Nutrition Information
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has prepared a summary of the comments and information provided during a 2007 hearing on the use of symbols to communicate nutrition information. Posted to the hearing docket on April 28, 2009, the document notes that significant gaps remain in research about consumer perception, understanding and use of symbols…
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Pew Environment Group Asks FDA to Apply Drug Rules to All Imported Farmed Salmon
According to the Environment Group of the Pew Charitable Trusts, salmon farming companies producing fish for export to the United States from Canada, Norway and Scotland are using pesticides and antibiotics that do not appear on the FDA/CVM Approved Drugs in Aquaculture list. In an April 23, 2009, letter to the acting Food and Drug…
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WHO Raises Pandemic Alert Level as “Swine Flu” Spreads
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week raised its influenza alert to the second-highest level as an outbreak of H1N1 virus–also known as swine flu–continues to surface across the globe. First identified in Mexico, H1N1 has spread to the United States and several other countries, including Canada, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and the United…