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FDA Deems Milk Contaminant Safe Despite Unknown Health Risks

October 3, 2008

Press Release: Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch Executive Director: Today, the Food and Drug Administration condoned the intentional adulteration of food with melamine by issuing a risk assessment for the industrial chemical that was added to milk and milk-based ingredients produced in China.

Local Activists, Our Santa Fe River and Food & Water Watch Halt Attempt to Privatize Gilchrist County Water as County Commission Denies “Special Use” Permit for New Water Extraction Facility

October 2, 2008

Press Release: Over 200 residents from Gilchrist, Alachua, Columbia and Suwannee Counties came out on Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to a proposed bottling facility along the Santa Fe River. After six hours of public testimony the County Commission voted 4-1 to deny a "special use" permit to allow Blue Springs Properties Inc. to extract water from a spring on the river. The new bottling facility would have pumped a minimum 500,000 gallons of water a day. Coca-Cola already operates a facility 5,000 feet from the proposed site that can pump up to 1.2 million gallons of water a day.

Consumer Group Commends Legislation to Stop MMS “Rigs to Fish Farms” Plan in Its Tracks

October 2, 2008

Press Release: Statement of Food & Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter: Food & Water Watch applauds and strongly supports Representative Young’s introduction of legislation that would prevent the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) and other Department of Interior agencies from approving currently pending rules to open federal ocean waters to industrial fish farming.

Salmonella Contamination – Is Irradiation the Solution?

June 13, 2008

Executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, Hauter said today: "As stores and restaurants around the country pull tomatoes from shelves and menus in response to the recent salmonella outbreak, American tomato farmers are poised to lose their livelihoods and the food irradiation industry sees dollar signs.

Book Signing Event: Groundbreaking Food Irradiation Book

June 5, 2008

Author Wenonah Hauter, of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, will be reading from and signing her book at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC.

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