The panel also recommended making it illegal to knowingly sell any recalled products and giving the Consumer Product Safety Commission the ability to conduct a "follow-up" recall without cooperation from companies if products remain widely available despite an initial recall. Currently, the FDA can request that companies recall food and drugs, but can only order recalls of infant formula, medical devices and human tissue products. The panel also recommended making it illegal to knowingly...

After frost damage, cyanide levels will likely be higher in fresh forage as compared with silage or hay, because cyanide is a gas and dissipates as the forage cures and dries. Jack Frost is finally taking his first bites of the year, bringing the potential for prussic acid poisoning when feeding forage from the sorghum family. Feed greenchopped forage within a few hours, and don't leave greenchopped forage in wagons or feedbunks overnight. Sudangrass varieties are low to intermediate in...

DEVELOPMENT: Farming Boost Could Lift a Billion People By Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (IPS) - The World Bank urged greater investment in the developing world's farms Friday, warning that failure to boost agriculture would doom the international community's ambition to halve extreme poverty in the next eight years. DEVELOPMENT: Farming Boost Could Lift a Billion People By Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (IPS) - The World Bank urged greater investment in the developing world's farms Friday,...

But as more Americans attempt to make healthy choices about what they put in their bodies, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to discern how our food was grown, processed and treated -- thanks to our collective support of a food industry that wields its heft and political clout to create labeling laws that make a mockery of disclosure. But as more Americans attempt to make healthy choices about what they put in their bodies, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to discern how...

The percent of animal products that animal rights activists would call "humanely raised and slaughtered" remains small compared with that from industrial-type production methods. Producers, and the restaurants they supply, know that the added cost of more humane husbandry can be more than chicken feed. But after years of crying in the wilderness, some animal rights groups say the food industry is starting to come around. But, generally, they would say it means the animal is fed, housed and...

But as more Americans attempt to make healthy choices about what they put in their bodies, it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern how our food was grown, processed and treated, thanks to a food industry that wields its heft and political clout to create labeling laws that make a mockery of disclosure. But as more Americans attempt to make healthy choices about what they put in their bodies, it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern how our food was grown, processed and...

There is no research linking these facts to our food supply because there seems to be no research whatever on the impact of a degraded food supply on human health. The legal contamination of the food supply has now reached levels where no one can predict the outcome, and the adulteration just keeps on coming. The possible results of manipulating a plant s (or an animal s) DNA are limited only by the creativity of the scientist, the money and motivation of Big Agra, and the unwitting...

The recalled products were distributed to several states, including Georgia. More products are being recalled because of lead. The recalled soups were shipped to 24 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. More products are being recalled because of lead. The recalled soups were...

And they want cattle fed on grass, which is much easier on their stomachs than the typical grain feed. To win an American Grassfed seal, companies must not confine their animals, never give them antibiotics and hormones and feed them only forage or grass, Whisnant says. In establishing USDA standards, the federal government will verify that ranchers are feeding only grass or forage to animals after they're weaned off milk. Instead, let's talk about last week's other big news for food...