Tag: fish
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Senators Continue Crusade to Keep GE Salmon Out of U.S. Markets
Alaska’s U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D) and Lisa Murkowski (R) have introduced two new bills as part of their ongoing campaign to prevent the federal government from allowing the sale of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Information about related legislative proposals they sponsored in January 2011 appears in Issue 380 of this Update. One new proposal…
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Industry Groups Concerned About Efforts to Stop FDA’s Review of GE Salmon
A coalition of 38 industry organizations has sent a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders urging Congress to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to complete its review of an application for genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The coalition’s letter comes on the heels of a recent House-approved appropriations amendment that prohibits FDA from…
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Lawmakers Urge FDA to Halt Approval Process for GE Salmon
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop the approval process for genetically engineered salmon. Fifteen members of the House of Representatives and eight members of the U.S. Senate signed separate letters to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg expressing economic and environmental concerns over the fast-growing fish.…
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Mercury Warnings on Tuna Under Prop. 65 Not Required
A California appeals court has determined that canned tuna sold in the state does not need a mercury warning label under Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) for reproductive toxicity because the mercury is naturally occurring and thus falls within a Prop. 65 exemption. People ex rel. Brown v. Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC, No. A116792 (Cal. Ct. App.,…
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California State Court Rules Against Prop. 65 Warnings for Tuna
After a two-month trial, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero late last week ruled that California cannot require the manufacturers of Chicken of the Sea, StarKist and Bumble Bee tuna to warn consumers that their products contain mercury and mercury compounds. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed the lawsuit in June 2004 under the…