By implementing small-scale, low cost measures, the efficiency of barge traffic on the Mississippi River could be significantly improved, according to a new report by the University of Missouri-St. Louis' Center for Transportation Studies.
A coalition of the state’s leading health and environmental groups, food producers, and food retailers today announced their support for a bipartisan bill to fight the emerging public-health crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections by reducing antibiotic overuse in meat and poultry production.
Proposed agricultural trade rules at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial would continue a failed policy approach that has damaged the livelihood of farmers in developed and developing countries, concluded a panel of experts from countries throughout the Americas.
The Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition (KAW) applauded the efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to release a final Guidance Document (Guidance #152) on agricultural antibiotics today.
Press release praised the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics as feed additives for farm animals. (S. 1460, H.R. 2932)
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) applauded the Minnesota Legislature and Governor Tim Pawlenty for signing into law last week a bill which would restrict the sale of fertilizer products in Minnesota to those with less than 500 parts per million of arsenic.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening its advisory for warning consumers about unsafe mercury levels in fish, according to recent statements made by its chief medical officer to the news media.
KAW press release regarding the letter sent by more than 100 health, consumer, environmental and other groups to U.S. Senators urging them to remove a provision of a bill that would worsen the human crisis of bacteria getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics.