Food Law Prof Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5991062009-07-14T21:54:34ZA Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadFoodLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.comVideos from conference on food safety, May 2009tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011572053c69970b2009-07-14T17:54:34-04:002009-07-14T21:54:34ZI could not attend this conference, which is too bad, because these talks are really interesting. The conference was: Food Import Safety: Systems, Infrastructure and Governance May 26-27, 2009, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison This conference will address food import safety...FoodLaw BloggerConcerns about antibiotics in animalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157110789c970c2009-07-14T17:41:50-04:002009-07-14T21:41:50ZFrom the New York Times: Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock by Gardiner Harris The Obama administration announced Monday that it would seek to ban many routine uses of antibiotics in farm animals in hopes of reducing the spread...FoodLaw BloggerHabitat destruction for food safetytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011572042e0d970b2009-07-14T13:56:36-04:002009-07-14T17:56:36ZFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau . . .Invisible to a public that sees only the headlines of the latest food-safety scare - spinach, peppers and now cookie...FoodLaw BloggerRichard L. Cupp -- Moving Beyond Animal Rights: A Legal/Contractualist Critiquetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710efb04970c2009-07-14T12:34:41-04:002009-07-14T16:34:41ZProfessor Richard L. Cupp, Jr. (Pepperdine), has published Moving Beyond Animal Rights: A Legal/Contractualist Critique, in the San Diego Law Review. The article articulates a contractualist approach to the question of legal personhood and rights for animals, asserting that both...FoodLaw Bloggertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571fe0e9c970b2009-07-13T12:42:01-04:002009-07-13T16:42:01ZFrom Food Ingredients Online (although I'm not sure this is really a food ingredient. I don't quite know what chromium picolinate is!): EFSA Issues Positive Safety Statement For The Use Of Chromium Picolinate In EU Food Supplements . . ....FoodLaw BloggerChoices (Amer Ag Econ Assoc. magazine) on Food Safetytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710929f0970c2009-07-13T12:28:21-04:002009-07-13T16:28:21ZChoices is a "policy-oriented magazine on Food, Farm & Resources" published by the American Agricultural Economics Association. It is available online. The current issue is about food safety: This issue features Emerging Issues in Food Safety, a theme edited by...FoodLaw BloggerNational Food Policy Conferencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571fddc32970b2009-07-13T12:22:39-04:002009-07-13T16:22:39ZThe Consumer Federation's annual Food Policy Conference takes place September 8 & 9 in Washington, DC. "For 32 years, the National Food Policy Conference has been a Washington institution and a unique collaboration between consumer advocates, government and the food...FoodLaw BloggerFDA to study consumer reactions to front-of-package nutrition labelstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157108eded970c2009-07-13T12:01:58-04:002009-07-13T16:01:58ZThis came from Food Label News: FDA is proposing to conduct an experimental study to assess quantitative consumer reactions to front-of-package nutrition symbols. The proposed study is described in the June 1, 2009, Federal Register. In part the study design...FoodLaw BloggerShipping wine across state lines -- but not to New Yorktag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571ae0bc4970b2009-07-03T09:34:12-04:002009-07-03T13:34:49ZThis one is from Wine Spectator: Federal Court Tells Out-of-State Wine Stores to Stay Out of New York . . . A three-judge panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that New York's law permitting in-state retailers...FoodLaw BloggerChanging definitions of organictag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570b8f712970c2009-07-03T09:30:05-04:002009-07-03T13:30:05ZFrom the Washington Post: Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned Three years ago, U.S. Department of Agriculture employees determined that synthetic additives in organic baby formula violated federal standards and should be banned from a product carrying the federal...FoodLaw Blogger