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 Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s 200 Million-Acre Expansion of Bee-Killing Pesticide The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today over its July decision to approve use of the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor across more than 200 million acres of crops. The approval was granted despite the fact that the Environmental... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, July 18, 2019 100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis Today, eight environmental, farmworker, public health, and food safety advocacy organizations delivered a petition—signed by more than 100,000 people—to Congress. The petition champions solutions to urgent food and agriculture issues that should be addressed in Representative Alexandria Ocasio-... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Center for Food Safety Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Keeping Secret the Reasons for Gutting the School Lunch Nutrition Program Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture for the agency’s failure to release government documents detailing why it decided to substantially reduce or eliminate child school lunch nutrition standards. The lawsuit specifically... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, May 24, 2019 Decision on Monarch Butterfly’s Endangered Species Protection Extended to 2020 In an agreement approved today, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety accepted an extended deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide on protection for monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act. In light of the extreme effects climate had on the... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 06, 2019 Defenders of Organic Integrity Win Victory for Transparency and Open Government Today, the Federal District Court in San Francisco agreed with organic farmers, consumers, and animal welfare advocates that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) cannot hide communications and documents that led up to the controversial decision by the Trump administration to withdraw... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 11, 2019 FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon The Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, Quinault Indian Nation, and Feed Seven Generations today decried the FDA’s decision to lift the 2016 import alert that banned genetically engineered salmon from entering the U.S . “USDA’s new guidelines don’t require adequate mandatory labeling, don... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, December 20, 2018 Long-Awaited Final Regulations for GMO Food Labeling Leave Millions of Americans in the Dark Today, the Trump Administration’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the long-awaited final regulations for the mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering (GE or GMO), which it calls "bioengineered foods." The final regulations include provisions which will leave the... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Court Shuts Down Offshore Aquaculture in Gulf of Mexico Today, Center for Food Safety, representing a coalition of fishing and public interest groups, won their lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce’s new federal rules that would have permitted, for the first time, industrial aquaculture offshore in U.S. federal waters. “This is a landmark... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, September 06, 2018 Center for Food Safety Calls for Court Decision on GE Labeling Delay Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a motion for summary judgement on its federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for failing to issue the genetically engineered (GE) food disclosure law by the mandatory deadline of July 19, 2018. Congress gave USDA two years after... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Victory! Court Rejects Trump Administration’s Claim that Organic Animal Standards Withdrawal Cannot be Challenged Yesterday, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a decision concluding that Center for Food Safety’s (CFS’s) legal challenge to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) withdrawal of organic animal welfare provisions could proceed. “We are very gratified that the... Read more |