Thompson Says More Money Needed for US Food Safety
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Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson on Monday said he was &quot;still not comfortable&quot; about the safety of the US food supply, despite an increase in federal inspections of food imports.
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Schools may need more money and  regulators may need more authority to help America's children  from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told  Congress on Tuesday.
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The chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says a Senate bill that would more than double the agency's budget and expand its authority would be too difficult for the agency to implement and "put the American people at greater risk."
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The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education &#151; fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
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FDA officials on Tuesday are expected to announce whether they will allow four million to five million doses of flu vaccine manufactured in Europe and Canada to be imported for use in the United States, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday in his
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The news comes as some observers warn that the United States needs to focus more on training scientists and engineers.
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The United States, the world's largest donor of food aid, needs to budget more than a proposed $1.2 billion a year to fight hunger effectively around the world, an anti-hunger coalition recommended on Monday.
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Schools may need more money and regulators may need more authority to help America's children from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told Congress on Tuesday.
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Consumer groups and the beef industry in the United States were yesterday attempting to avert any public panic over food supplies after officials at the Department of Agriculture revealed
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This Chapter of the video discusses the increased budget from the US government from $200 million to $15 billion in 2003 and again to $30 billion in 2007. Ambassador Hope advises that it is too big of a problem for a small solution.
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The country's import-safety system has not kept pace with an increase in foreign goods, a panel appointed by President Bush said yesterday. Federal agencies should do a better job of coordinating oversight, the panel said, though it stopped short of calling for a single agency to oversee imports.
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US officials announced final regulations to further safeguard the nation&#39;s food supply on Monday, only three days after outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
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As the US awaits the test results of a possible mad cow case, some experts call for more reforms of the system.
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For years, cheap food and feed were taken for granted in the United States. Now the price of some foods is rising sharply, and a blame alert is under way.
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Europe's food and drink industry must step up its fight against obesity over the next three years or face new regulations, a spokesman for the European Union's health chief said on Wednesday.
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US food prices will rise by as much as 4 percent this year, the biggest increase in 14 years, due to more costly beef, milk, and fresh vegetables, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted today that the US has not been &quot;stingy&quot; in its response to the Asian tsunami disaster but admitted that much more international aid would have to be given.