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3 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday that while the E. coli outbreak unfolding in Europe poses no immediate threat to the U.S., the Department of Agriculture is monitoring the situation. [read post]
27 May 2011, 2:59 am
A panel of judges at the USDA, which included Karen Duncan, wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Christie Vilsack, wife of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, as well as a number of chefs and business leaders, gave Ramirez's team an honorary mention for "Soup of Sunshine" this week. [read post]
26 May 2011, 2:59 am
"We are gratified that the agency resisted an unprecedented lobbying campaign by the pesticide and produce industry to get the government to spin the test results and downplay consumer concerns about pesticide contamination," said EWG president Ken Cook in the statement.Earlier this year, the big produce group United Fresh and related agriculture-industry interests sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging that the annual… [read post]
19 May 2011, 2:59 am
EWG President Ken Cook and several of the nation's top physicians and scientists wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg this week urging them to no longer delay the release of the most recent test results. [read post]
12 May 2011, 2:59 am
More stress before slaughter makes animals more susceptible to being the source of foodborne illnesses and some say that is a problem particular to confined-animal operations and the industrial food chain.Food safety appears to be at least a secondary consideration for those concerned about consolidation in the agriculture and food industries.Following five workshops held last year to examine antitrust issues in agriculture, more than 160 of the participating organizations now want… [read post]
10 May 2011, 8:30 am
This will assist efforts to expand the availability of healthy foods in low-income communities that lack “ready access” to it, according to Obama’s USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 12:55 pm
” This is simply part of Obama’s goal to ensure a cleaner, safer and more secure energy future, according to his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 6:04 pm
However, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, made an important announcement last week about a new effort to make food safer for kids. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 11:28 am
When the full video was released the following morning, however, Sherrod received a number of apologies, including from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and President Obama. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 8:03 am
Those who may oppose this sort of government expenditure amid a record $14 trillion deficit should first consider the words of Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) nutrition assistance programs. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday.The People's Garden School Pilot Program will benefit an estimated 2,800 students attending schools in Washington, New York, Iowa and Arkansas and serve as a national model to encourage similar school gardens. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Under Secretary for Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen told reporters that while test-and-hold is already practiced by many of the big meat and poultry processors, the new policy could yield significant public health results. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
In that case, a unit of Germany's Bayer AG was ordered to pay $136.8 million to Riceland Foods, a farmers' cooperative, for contaminating U.S. long grain rice stocks with a genetically modified strain. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued a request for nominations to the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st century Agriculture (AC21). [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture program, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Tuesday. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack echoed that message about foods imported from Japan, as well as food safety at home. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
The Obama administration ultimately went with full deregulation.Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had favored the second approach, calling it a compromise that might help avert further litigation, and urging coexistence. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
He added that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has made pronouncements about adding 100,000 farmers to the U.S. food production system. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 1:59 am
House lawmakers grilled Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tuesday on the impact proposed Republican budget cuts would have on key U.S. [read post]
