This article was filed under Food Safety | Organics
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Feb. 16, 2010 – The new USDA pasture rule has been widely embraced by the organic community and greatly strengthens the integrity of the USDA Organic Seal. This is an important change that should be celebrated by the organizations and consumers across the country who commented on the issue and made it clear that consumers expect that organic livestock have access to pasture. Your voice does count!
This article was filed under Food Safety
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Jan. 21, 2010 – National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative for 112 natural food co-ops nationwide, opposes the deregulation of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa and encourages consumers nationwide to tell the USDA they oppose the allowance of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa into the nation’s food supply.
This article was filed under Food Safety
IOWA CITY, Iowa (June 16, 2009) – While the new food safety bill under consideration in Congress improves transparency and traceability in the food system, it does not go far enough to support sustainable food systems and may not prevent the types of food scares that have impacted our food supply in recent years, according to National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA).
This article was filed under Food Safety
Iowa City, Iowa (April 29, 2008) — With planting season underway in many parts of the nation, National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) wants consumers to know that a recent deregulation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will enable farms to plant potentially harmful, genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seeds.
This article was filed under Food Safety
Iowa City, Iowa (Jan. 15, 2008) — The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), which represents 109 natural food co-ops across the nation, condemns today’s assessment by the Food and Drug Administration allowing for cloned animals into the nation’s food supply.
This article was filed under Food Safety
(Iowa City, Iowa) April 24, 2007—Eleven years after scientists produced the first cloned animal, a sheep named Dolly, the FDA this year could approve the sale of dairy products and meat from clones in supermarkets nationwide —unless concerned shoppers act now, according to the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative for consumer-owned natural food co-ops located throughout the United States.
This article was filed under Food Safety
Natural food cooperatives helps shoppers make informed decisions about gene- or molecule-manipulated food.
