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No publisher press water consumer rights water privatization career summer job environment fellowship corporate control college students 2008-05-05T19:34:56Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/trust-fund/clean-public-water-cited-as-essential-to-healthy-planet Food & Water Watch slides into number 26 as your partner for clean and safe water in the revised edition of "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth". No publisher Webeditor water trust fund 2008-04-10T20:32:39Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/video-reveals-big-problems-at-meat-plant The February 18, 2008 announcement that more than 140 million pounds of frozen ground beef produced by a plant in California was being recalled has sparked lots of media coverage, not only because of the sheer size of the recall (the largest in U.S. history) but because of the dramatic video footage of the humane handling violations at the plant that sparked the recall. But, as always, there is more to the story that what you see on the news. No publisher press meat food recall meat inspection school lunch food safety mad cow disease USDA 2008-02-21T15:02:54Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/fish-farming/gulf-of-mexico/gulf-aquaculture-press-call-summary-audio Event Audio Recording: Fishing, conservation, and consumer groups discuss the pending Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Generic Offshore Aquaculture Amendment and a new analysis from Food & Water Watch discussing potential economic consequences of rushing to open the Gulf to industrial fish farming. No publisher press fish farming food fish shrimp aquaculture Gulf of Mexico seafood food safety 2008-03-10T15:51:08Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/madcowdisease/mad-cow-risk-canadian-cattle-slaughtered News Item: Food & Water Watch sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns complete with affidavits of USDA employees describing significant problems with the United States mad cow (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE) policies and practices that endanger U.S. consumers. No publisher press international food safety mad cow disease 2007-07-18T13:50:49Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/seafood/melamine-fishfeed/melamine-fishfeed News Item: Thousands of pet deaths across the United States prompted a Food and Drug Administration investigation that uncovered melamine, a chemical component of plastics and pesticides, in pet food. Canadian fishmeal manufacturers also imported the contaminated wheat flour and used it to produce fishmeal that was sold to nearly 200 aquaculture operations in the United States. No publisher Webeditor imports fish China food safety 2008-03-28T19:53:26Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/food-technologies/carbon-monoxide/carbon-monoxide-meat News Item: The Senate OKs the Levin Amendment requiring the Food and Drug Administration to consider the health risks of carbon monoxide-treated meat. No publisher Webeditor meat food safety carbon monoxide 2007-07-13T20:32:55Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/food-technologies/cloning/cloned-animal-slaughter News Item: The Center for Food Safety and Food and Water Watch learned of the imminent sale of several cloned animals for slaughter and sent the attached letter to the USDA FSIS asking the agency to prohibit any slaughter of clones and their progeny. No publisher Webeditor food cloning food safety 2007-07-13T20:42:04Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/usda-vacancies-mean-u-s-food-supply-not-inspected News Item: Food & Water Watch sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Richard Raymond outlining our concerns about agency’s lack of transparency on meat inspector vacancies. No publisher press food safety meat 2007-07-13T20:51:14Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/dairy/full-story-rbgh-free-labels-1 News Item: A recent poll conducted for Food & Water Watch indicates that 80 percent of consumers want milk from cows not treated with the hormone to be labeled “rBGH-free" but Monsanto, the manufacturer of rBGH, has asked for such labels to be restricted. No publisher press dairy rBGH 2007-07-13T17:55:12Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/trust-fund/bush-administration-irresponsible-on-world-water-day News Item: Upon passage of the Clean Water Act in 1977, Congress declared, “it is the national policy that Federal financial assistance be provided to construct publicly owned waste treatment works.” Today, EPA predicts an annual gap of $22 billion between the funds available and the funds needed to maintain the nations pipes and treatment plants to meet minimum federal standards for drinking water. No publisher Webeditor water 2007-07-13T18:05:11Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/world-water/right/australia-water-crisis News Item: Australia's water policy is causing the country to experience a water crisis. Written by Maude Barlow. No publisher Webeditor water Right to Water 2007-07-13T18:16:01Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/usda-to-propose-less-inspection News Item: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is poised to release its "roadmap" or timeline for something called risk based inspection of meat processing plants. Food & Water Watch has serious concerns that the Bush Administration's reform to the inspection system will mean less government inspection. No publisher press USDA food safety 2007-07-13T18:17:30Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/madcowdisease/mad-cow-news-usda-more-cattle-from-canada News Item: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement that it intends to expand the scope of meat products and cattle that can be imported from Canada proves once again that the agency is more concerned about pleasing trading partners than protecting public health. No publisher press 2007-07-13T18:18:41Z News Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/contaminated-meat-goes-to-market-1 News Item: The U.S. Department of Agriculture decides to allow contaminated meat go to market. No publisher Webeditor food safety 2007-07-13T18:20:49Z News Item