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Mars Finally Removes Titanium Dioxide from Skittles After Decade of CFS Advocacy
This week, after almost a decade of advocacy by Center for Food Safety (CFS) and allies, Mars, Inc. confirmed they have ...
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Victory for Oceans and the Public Good: Federal Government Declines to Appeal Ruling Striking Down Offshore Fish Farming
In a decisive moment for ocean protection and environmental law, last week the federal government declined to appeal a ...
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Mars Finally Removes Titanium Dioxide from Skittles After Decade of CFS Advocacy
WASHINGTON, DC—In a decisive moment for ocean protection and environmental law, last week the federal government declined to appeal a court ruling that struck down Nationwide Permit 56 (NWP 56), effec ...
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Groups Sue EPA Over Failure to Regulate Insecticide-Coated Seeds
SAN FRANCISCO—Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to close a regulatory loophole ...
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Lawsuit Challenging FDA Approval of Novel Genetically Engineered Color Additive That Makes Impossible Burger "Bleed" Moves Forward
(Washington, D.C.) -- Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal brief in its challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 2019 approval of soy leghemoglobin ("heme"), a color ...
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Legal Appeal Challenges Hidden GMO Foods in Marketplace
SAN FRANCISCO—Late yesterday, Center for Food Safety filed a legal appeal against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in response to its genetically engineered (GMO or GE) labeling rules that do ...
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Monsanto-Bayer to End U.S. Residential Sales of Toxic Pesticide Glyphosate
"Bayer's decision to end U.S. residential sale of Roundup is a historic victory for public health and the environment. As agricultural, large-scale use of this toxic pesticide continues, our ...
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Farmworkers, Environmental Groups File Legal Action Demanding Roundup Ban
WASHINGTON—A groundbreaking legal action today calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately suspend and cancel the dangerous herbicide glyphosate, the main ingredient in ...
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Farmers, Conservation Groups Challenge EPA's Unlawful Re-approval of Dangerous, Drift-Prone Dicamba Pesticide
SAN FRANCISCO—Four public interest groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rushed re-approval of products containing the dangerous, drift-prone dicamba ...
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U.S. Tries to Force Potentially Hazardous GM Corn on Mexico
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) today released an analysis supporting Mexico in its bid to maintain restrictions protecting its food supply from potentially hazardous genetically modified (GM) corn.
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Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful
San Francisco, Calif.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving the genetically ...
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Statement on FDA's First-Ever Approval of Lab Grown Chicken
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently completed its preliminary review of the first lab grown "chicken" to be sold as food. The FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are both ...