Statement by CFA’s Chris Waldrop on House Vote on Country-of-Origin Labeling
“Yesterday the House voted to deny American consumers basic information about where their food comes from. In supporting a repeal of country of origin labeling for meat, pork and chicken, Congress...
View ArticleConsumer Group Letter to Farm Bill Conferees Urging Defense of Country of...
CFA and other consumer organizations urge farm bill conferees to defend the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law and reject calls for changing it. COOL provides consumers with important...
View ArticleLetter to House in Opposition to the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of...
Contrary to its name, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act is not an appropriate solution to labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Instead, the Act would codify the current voluntary...
View ArticleCFA Urges Senate to Reject the Improperly Titled Safe and Accurate Food...
American consumers want information about the food they feed to their families, yet some members of Congress have sought to preempt state labeling laws that legislators passed to provide their...
View ArticleConsumer and Agriculture Groups’ Letter Urging USDA to Maintain Clear,...
CFA and other organizations representing consumers, farmers, the public health and the environment, urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) to eliminate...
View ArticleCFA Tells USDA to Start Planning Now for Next Fifty Years
In response to a request for comments on “the long-term health and viability of U.S. Agriculture and improving the economic, environmental, security, and health benefits to the U.S. through agriculture...
View Article40th Annual National Food Policy Conference Scheduled for April 11 & 12, 2017...
Washington, D.C. – For the 40th year, the Consumer Federation of America will host the Annual National Food Policy Conference in Washington, DC on April 11 & 12, 2017. The event explores timely...
View ArticleNational Food Policy Conference Will Address Impact of Funding Cuts in...
Washington, D.C. – For the 40th year, the Consumer Federation of America will host the Annual National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on April 11 & 12, 2017. Among the confirmed...
View ArticlePresident’s Proposed Budget Cuts Will Be Front & Center at the National Food...
Washington, D.C. – For the 40th year, the Consumer Federation of America will host the Annual National Food Policy Conference in Washington, DC on April 11 & 12, 2017. Among the speakers are Susan...
View ArticleSafe Food Coalition on Proposed USDA Reorganization: Food Safety First
Members of the Safe Food Coalition submitted the following comments on the proposed reorganization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which was first announced on May 11, 2017. Among other changes,...
View ArticleCFA Commends Release of Establishment Specific Data, Asks Agency to...
CFA submitted the following comments asking USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to continue with plans to publish establishment specific data sets and to consider accelerating the...
View ArticleCFA Comments Seek Reliable Analysis of New Poultry Inspection System
CFA submitted the following comments in response to the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) Renewal of Approved Information Collection regarding Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection....
View ArticleCFA Report Highlights State and Local Initiatives to Reduce Antibiotics in...
Washington, D.C. — The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has released a new report examining the ways that consumer and public health advocates are working to reduce the amount of antibiotics given...
View ArticleGoing Local: Initiatives to Reduce Antibiotics in the Food Supply
Since their discovery in the 1930s, antibiotics have become a ubiquitous and critical component of modern medicine. With increased use, however, antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. At the same...
View ArticleCFA Opposes FDA’s Proposed Four-Year Delay of Food Safety Rules
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to delay enforcement of agricultural water standards required under the Food Safety Modernization Act. CFA submitted the following comments in...
View ArticleMega-Mergers in the U.S. Seed and Agrochemical Sector
It is widely recognized that the increase in concentration in the cottonseed market resulting from the proposed Monsanto-Bayer merger violates the Department of Justice’s recently revised Horizontal...
View ArticleNew CFA Report Warns of Unprecedented Impact on Free Markets from Proposed...
Washington, D.C. — A new report on the examining the proposed mega-merger between the agrochemical giants Bayer and Monsanto, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) points out that the companies...
View ArticleSafe Food Coalition Welcomes Nomination of Public Health Professional as Food...
Washington D.C. — Members of the Safe Food Coalition are optimistic today that the Trump Administration’s nomination of Dr. Mindy Brashears for the position of Under Secretary for Food Safety will help...
View ArticleFederal Court Finds That Country-of-Origin Labeling Harms Cattle Producers...
Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington granted summary judgment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a lawsuit filed by cattle producers in the...
View ArticleConsumer, Public Health Groups Tell Congress Not to Shield Industry from...
CFA joined a coalition of consumer and public health groups in opposing a House bill that would prevent the Department of Agriculture from releasing sales data related to the Supplemental Nutrition...
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