Category: Issue 465
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APHIS Requests Three-Year Extension of Information Collection Activities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has requested an extension of approval of an information collection associated with the regulations for the introduction of organisms and products altered or produced through genetic engineering. The regulations set forth “the permit application requirements and the notification procedures for the importation, interstate…
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FSIS Implements ‘Hold and Test’ Policy For Poultry and Beef
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced that, as of February 8, 2013, it will require producers of non-intact raw beef and all ready-to-eat products containing meat and poultry to hold shipments until they pass agency testing for foodborne pathogens. FSIS announced its plan to implement this policy in…
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FTC Finds Apps for Kids Lack Adequate Privacy Disclosures
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a December 2012 staff report finding that only 20 percent of the 400 children’s mobile applications under review “contained any privacy-related disclosure on the app’s promotion page, on the developer website, or within the app.” Titled “Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade,” the report…
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PCAST Calls for More Competitive Research Grants and a Network of Agricultural Institutes
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has issued a report urging the federal government to launch “a coordinated effort to boost American agricultural science by increasing public investments in that economically important domain and rebalancing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research portfolio.” According to a press release from the Executive Office of…