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Press Release: RWE’s board minutes cite “considerable political resistance to privatization of the water sector” and “performance problems and weak growth at American Water” as reasons for the German utility’s quick exit from the water business, according to the consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch which obtained the sealed minutes.

Press Release: Food & Water Watch Calls for Increased Inspections and a Temporary Ban on All Chinese Food Imports – A Food & Water Watch analysis reveals that refusals of seafood shipments from China for veterinary drug residue contamination increased dramatically in April, even though the U.S. Food & Drug Administration inspects barely 1 percent of all seafood imports.

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter – The high profile food safety problems in recent months have focused overdue attention to the sorry state of our food safety regulations and the agencies that are charged with enforcing them.

Press Release: The World Bank’s investor arbitration court and bilateral trade agreements undermine governments authority to protect human rights and natural resources, according to a new report released today by Food & Water Watch and the Institute for Policy Studies. The report was released just after a case was heard in which British investor Biwater is demanded $25 million from Tanzania, the 15th poorest country in the world, over a failed water project.

Press Release: A Bush Administration bill to permit hundreds of thousands of fish to be raised in industrial size cages off America‚ coasts could harm oceans, fish, and people, said the consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch, upon the bill’s introduction in the House of Representatives yesterday.

Press Release: Widespread consumer complaints could translate into investor wariness as RWE prepares to sell American Water later this year, cautioned U.S. officials, citizens and consumer advocates at the company‚ annual general meeting today. RWE has refused to negotiate with communities that want to buy their local water systems from the company at fair market value, prompting some to consider forcing a sale by other legal means, according to consumer rights organization Food & Water Watch.

Press Release: Eighty percent of consumers want milk produced without the hormone rBGH to be labeled as such, according to a poll released today by Food & Water Watch.

Press Release: The Food and Drug Administration announced today that it may allow irradiated food to be mislabeled with alternate terms such as pasteurized. This move by FDA would deny consumers clear information about whether they are buying food that has been exposed to high doses of ionizing radiation.

Press Release: During the first year of Alaska‚ crab rationalization program, 1,150 fishermen lost their jobs and millions of crabs were wasted, and yet the North Pacific Fishery Management Council failed to consider socio-economic or environmental effects of rationalization in a requested report reviewed this week. A coalition of consumer and fishing groups criticized the report for deflecting blame for the drop in crab price away from processor domination of the fishery and criticized the council for considering a sector split that could set up the cod fishery for the same kind of program.

Press Release: A new web animation released today by Food & Water Watch draws attention to the deceptive and potentially dangerous use of carbon monoxide to color packaged meat.