GOP Looking to Repeal Food Labeling Law
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Telling consumers where their meat, fruit and vegetables came from seemed such a good idea to U.S. ranchers and farmers in competition with imports that Congress two years ago ordered the food industry to do it. But meatpackers and food processors fought the law from the start, and newly emboldened Republicans now plan to repeal it before Thanksgiving.
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A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers  -  but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law
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The country's largest food suppliers, including Kraft Foods, H.J. Heinz and Dole Food, facing congressional food-safety proposals that could cost them millions of dollars a year, proposed yesterday to grant the government more oversight of the industry.
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Scotland is considering lobbying the  United States to lift a ban on haggis, hoping to boost sales of  the sheep-stomach-based national dish.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Is putting Heinz ketchup on a burger tantamount to supporting John Kerry for president?    An upstate New York lawmaker apparently thinks so...
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Restaurants will be urged to voluntarily phase out trans fats from kitchens over the next 18 months under a plan unveiled by city and county leaders Tuesday.
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Reuters London Oct 27: British supermarket chain, Asda said it would fight to change food labelling laws after it was fined Â£ 5,000 for illegally describing its mangoes as helpful in the fight against cancer.
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Since the widening controversy over the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program bubbled onto the international stage last January, it&#39;s been a weapon for conservatives in Congress who want to see Kofi Annan walk the plank.
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Food and Drug Administration officials yesterday amplified their call for consumers and grocers to search their shelves for chili-related products made by Castleberry's Food, which have been found to pose a risk of deadly botulism.
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An end-of-the-session food fight over a milk support program erupted Friday in Congress, stalling action for hours on legislation ranging from corporate tax cuts to hurricane and drought relief and preventing lawmakers from adjourning to hit the campaign trail.
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The Bush administration proposed changing the name of food stamps, the premiere U.S. anti-hunger program, and some of the rules for qualifying for federal help for buying food on Wednesday.
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Animal rights campaigners urged lawmakers in the southern California city of San Diego to introduce a ban on foie gras, in the latest US challenge to the beloved delicacy of gourmands.
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House Republicans are working to eliminate or dilute provisions in a new corporate tax bill aimed at cracking down on illegal shelters.
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Aiming to end punitive European Union tariffs against American goods, US lawmakers on Wednesday began a final push to pass a corporate tax bill that will repeal export subsidies that violate global trade rules.
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The U.S. Congress will act soon to  address the issue of Chinese food and product safety, something  Beijing should not take as a trumped-up political act, two U.S.  lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Lawmakers on Thursday moved to block the Food and Drug Administration from closing more than half its field laboratories, acting out of concern the plan could weaken the safety of the nation's food supply.
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Democrats taking control of Congress next month say they will try to ban for the remainder of fiscal 2007 the special-interest "pork" projects that got Republicans in so much trouble with voters in the November elections.