Center for Food Safety
Center for Food Safety is a national, non-profit, membership organization founded in 1997 to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon, and has more than 300,000 members across the country.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Thursday, April 12, 2018 Environmentalists and Farmers Seek Court Decision Halting Use of Dow’s “Agent Orange” Pesticide Late Wednesday , a coalition of environmental organizations and farmers represented by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed new legal papers in federal court seeking the reversal of Scott Pruitt and the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) approval of Dow Chemical’s... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, March 22, 2018 Organic Advocates and Farmers Sue over Trump Withdrawal of Widely-Supported Organic Livestock Welfare Rule Today, nonprofit public interest organizations led by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Trump Administration's Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary Sonny Perdue, over last week's decision to withdraw the organic regulations for animals on certified organic farms, called the "... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, January 29, 2018 Court Rejects Trump Administration Secrecy in Genetically Engineered Salmon Case Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) attempt to hide thousands of pages of key government documents revealing how the agency arrived at its controversial approval of the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) animal for human consumption... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, January 25, 2018 Hundreds of Groups Call on Congress to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides A broad coalition of more than 250 conservation, consumer, agricultural and other public interest groups sent a letter to Congress opposing all efforts to weaken or gut Endangered Species Act (ESA) requirements that address the effects of toxic pesticides on threatened and endangered species... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, December 14, 2017 Victory! Monsanto Shill Dourson Withdraws After Public Outcry Center for Food Safety heralded reports that Michael Dourson, President Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, yesterday withdrew his nomination after Senators raised concerns over his past work and... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, May 25, 2017 Consumer Coalition Calls on In-N-Out Burger to Fulfill Promise to Reduce Antibiotics Use in Beef Public interest, environmental, food safety and consumer groups representing millions of consumers sent a letter today calling on In-N-Out Burger, California's iconic hamburger restaurant chain, to make good on its promise to stop selling beef produced with routine antibiotics. The groups delivered... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 22, 2017 Landmark Report Shows Bee-killing Seed Coatings Aren’t Worth the Harm A new report, Alternatives to Neonicotinoid Insecticide-Coated Corn Seed: Agroecological Methods are better for Farmers and the Environment , released today from Center for Food Safety, shows that environmentally harmful neonicotinoid (neonic) insecticide seed coatings are largely unnecessary and... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, January 23, 2017 Public Interest Groups, Farmers File Lawsuit Challenging Monsanto’s Toxic Pesticides Farmers and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Monsanto’s new “XtendiMax” pesticide. The approval of the pesticide company’s latest version of the older weed-killer known as dicamba permits it to be sprayed directly on... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, January 05, 2017 Consumer Groups Petition 16 Fast Food Chains to Reduce Antibiotic Use; Burger King’s Announcement Doesn’t Cut the Mustard Consumer health and food safety groups today delivered petitions signed by more than 125,000 people to the CEOs of 16 fast food restaurants, calling on them to stop the unnecessary use of antibiotics in their meat and poultry supply. Medical experts agree that the overuse of antibiotics in... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, December 07, 2016 Victory! GE Mosquitoes Will Not Be Let Loose on Florida Community The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will not move forward with the controversial release of millions of genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes in the community of Key Haven in Monroe County, Florida. The release of the GE mosquitoes would have been the first-ever in the United... Read more |