New Bush panel to police food imports
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President Bush on Wednesday established a high-level government panel to recommend steps to guarantee the safety of food and other products shipped into the United States and to improve U.S. policing of those imports. The White House denied the effort was aimed primarily at China.
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Federal regulators could collect more than $200 million a year in import fees under legislation introduced yesterday by a senior Senate Democrat that aims to strengthen oversight of food brought into the country.
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The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the industry's largest trade group, plans to unveil on Tuesday a proposal to increase U.S. federal oversight of imported food and ingredients, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.
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A Bush administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from China.
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Responding to growing international concerns about tainted food and counterfeit drugs, China has disclosed that it is overhauling its food- and drug-safety regulations and will introduce nationwide inspections.
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Description: President Bush nominates Carlos Gutierrez as Commerce secretary. The CEO and chairman of Kellogg&#39;s is considered one of the country&#39;s most prominent Hispanic executives.
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A new Cabinet committee, to be known as the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety, will monitor U.S. imports to minimize danger and improve safety.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday signed a measure that gives the Food and Drug Administration more power and money to police dangerous side effects from prescription drugs after they reach the market.
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The United States is hoping to bolster the safety of food and other products imported from China by opening a new Food and Drug Administration office in the Asian nation.
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Catering outlets may have to display graded food-safety certificates under new plans.
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A working group appointed by President Bush recommended a food inspection approach that focuses on points of vulnerability that arise before products like food and toys reach the United States.
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In response to a gloomy assessment of the state of the nation's coastal waters, President Bush ordered the creation of a new federal panel to coordinate oceanic policy.
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President Bush is creating a White House committee to oversee the nation's ocean policies, with plans to improve research, better manage fisheries and regulate pollution from boats.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is checking whether shipments of Chinese seafood on an agency watch list were properly cleared for public consumption without being tested for banned drugs or chemicals.
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President Bush today appointed former senator Bob Dole and former health and human services secretary Donna E. Shalala to co-chair a new presidential commission that will look into problems at the nation's military and veterans' hospitals.
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China has sharply increased inspections of imported U.S. food, escalating a dispute with Washington over product safety and leaving American beef piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and other goods
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The Bush administration begins to lay out its second term foreign policy agenda this week when Condoleezza Rice undergoes two days of hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.