HEBER CITY -- A faint odor of restaurant grease lingers in the back of a steel welding shop off U.S. 40, but no burgers or fries are served here. Over the vrooms of diesel-powered trucks driving through the Heber Valley, Bill Hartlieb explains how two 55-gallon drums are...
FOOD poisoning, it seems, has become a moving target for health officials. For years, health experts rightly cautioned the American public about the dangers of E. coli sickness caused by raw or undercooked beef. And the handling of beef for human consumption requires vigilance. ...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- e-FoodSafety.com (OTCBB:EFSF), a company that provides effective methods and products to ensure the safety of fruits, vegetables and meats, today announced through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Knock-Out Technologies, Ltd., that the Company has received confirmation from Celsis Laboratory Group of St. Louis, Missouri, USA (LSE: CEL.L; www.celsis.com)...
By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 15--A federal lawsuit to protect threatened salmon and steelhead from pesticides is likely to result in hundreds of miles of no-spray buffers along streams and waterways that stretch from Washington...
By Deborah Kades, The Wisconsin State Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--Nutra-Park, a Middleton high-tech company, expects to have sales of $500,000 this year now that its product has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Natureloks, which...
PESTICIDE PETITION: EPA has received a pesticide petition from Middletown, WI-based Nutra-Park Inc., to establish an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for the biochemical pesticide Lysophosphatidylethanolamine in or on all food commodities. Presently, the product is being registered for use as a pre-harvest and...
Organophosphates face greater gov't scrutiny in coming months... part of a review of farm chemicals by the Environmental Protection Agency mandated under the Food Quality Protection Act FQPA, enacted in '96. Preliminary EPA report says they pose biggest risk to children. The chemicals...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA is reviewing the risks of organophosphate OP pesticides, which are widely used in agriculture. So far, more of these have been identified with worker safety, ecosystem, and nonoccupational exposure risks than with dietary or drinking water risks, reports USDA's Economic...
A parent's guide to kid-friendly foods I wish I had known three weeks ago what I know today. I was sitting in my sister-in-law's kitchen, watching her cut up fruit for my one-year-old niece. Grapes, peach and melon slices--my niece shoved them all appreciatively into her mouth. Neither her...
The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 27--ALCIDE CLIMBS AFTER EPA APPROVES DISINFECTANT: REDMOND, Wash.--Shares of Alcide rose 16 percent after the maker of disinfectants used by the meatpacking industry said the Environmental Protection Agency EPA approved its Sanova antimicrobial for use on...
In addition to grapes, the product was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for fruits, hops, peanuts, walnuts and vegetables. The product was used in a 1999 trial on powdery mildew in Sonoma County.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Environmental Protection Agency has severely restricted the use of two of the most widely utilized chemical pesticides in the United States. The agency has eliminated certain uses of methyl parathion and reduced allowable residues of azinphos methyl. The EPA says it has banned the use...
The Environmental Protection Agency, in its zeal to rid the worm of pesticides, fails to mention the hazards of dangerous strains of food-borne pathogens that may be present in organically grown "natural" foods. FEATURED AT your local supermarket are unwarranted fear, innuendo, and bad advice from the Environmental Protection...
Two recent studies each sponsored by a consumer group launched an attack on pesticides, saying residues, particularly on fruits, pose a risk to children. The latest campaign, conducted by Environmental Working Group EWG, kicked off with a broadside that included these featured quotes: "More than one million children ages one...
A key input parameter for assessing risks posed by sludge application to cropland and home gardens is the uptake coefficient UC of a contaminant into a crop. The UC is used to relate increases in crop metal concentrations to increases in soil metals. Experiments measuring UCs for various crops, soils...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is proposing to revoke or amend the maximum pesticide residue limits tolerances for the organophosphate insecticide methyl parathion on all fruits and many vegetables. In a June 2 notice in the Federal Re THE...
AFFI expressed dismay at the "lack of judgment and resulting unenlightened actions" demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA in development of the new "Dietary Guidelines for Americans," which promote the consumption of raw fruits and vegetables and completely...
JAMES DELANEY, a deceased Democratic congressman from New York, is remembered for little except a mischievous clause he managed to make U.S. law late one night in August 1958. Called the Delaney clause, section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act forbids government approval of any additive to...
Key words: Pesticide, fruits and vegetables, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act FIFRA, Integrated Pest Management IPM.IntroductionIn the past 25 years a significant change has occurred in the use of pesticides in U.S. agriculture. In the 1950's and early 1960's, growers of fruit and vegetable crops represented a significant share...
Changing Pesticide Regulations: A Promise for Safer Produce While the popularity of fruits and vegetables has surged in recent years, a growing number of consumers have become concerned about the health effects of chemical residues on produce. In a 1988 nationwide survey conducted for The Packer, a produce industry...
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