U.S. food firms want binding rules for safe imports
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Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan on Tuesday to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators.
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Officials call on international community to open crossing points for trade.
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China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country's top agriculture official said.
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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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Certain health supplements and raisins imported from the United States failed to meet Chinese safety standards and have been returned or destroyed, the country's food safety agency said Friday, turning the tables on the U.S. amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offered new guidance to the food industry on Monday to try to keep fresh-cut vegetables safe but admitted it is still not clear how lettuce, tomatoes and other foods get contaminated in the first place.
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WASHINGTON -- US officials asked their Chinese counterparts to increase oversight of food and drug exports yesterday as the list of potentially deadly products reaching US shores kept growing.
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Applying US safety standards to drug imports is more important than allowing them into the country without the regulations just because they are cheaper, some delegates of the American Medical Association said Sunday.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering the implementation of new regulations to improve the safety of farm eggs in order to reduce the number of illnesses caused by salmonella.
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A top health official called for more integration within China's fractured food regulatory system Friday to boost its troubled safety record, while the military warned that unsafe food could undermine its combat readiness.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has targeted five regions around the world where it would like to establish a greater presence to monitor the safety of exported food, drugs and other goods, the top FDA official said on Thursday.
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City officials are promising to be gentle when it comes to enforcing the first-in-the-nation ban on trans fats, which restaurants will have more than a year to rid from their food.
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WASHINGTON -- The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don't have to follow them.
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Turning the tables on the United States amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products, Beijing said Friday some health supplements, raisins and pistachios imported from the U.S. failed to meet China's safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.
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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.