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Produce Safety and Preventive Controls: FDA To Lay Down Law on Food Pathogens

Part 3: In my previous post, I skimmed the surface of the massive regulations which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …

In my previous post, I sketched the enormous stakes involved as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) re-writes federal food …

Even a quick perusal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current proposal to improve the safety of our nation’s fruit …

Although the principles and practices of organic agriculture stretch back thousands of years, the process of organic certification …

The History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 10 Oct 22, 2012. Last week, our extended look at the history of organic …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 9 Oct 15, 2012. Part 9: Demand for organic foods during the early years of the …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 8 (Oct 8, 2012) Back in July 2012, the New York Times published an article entitled …

Four years into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, some Americans are losing confidence that the conventional …

History of Organic Agriculture series- Part 7 Mar 24, 2010. My previous post outlined the improbable circumstances under which …

[Editor's Note: This is part six of Mark Keating's 11-part series of the origins and evolution of organic agriculture; how the …