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Updated WHO Data Finds Deaths Caused By Tainted Food Are Underestimated

November 12, 2009

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New WHO data finds that unsafe food kills an estimated 1.2 million people over the age of five in Southeast Asia and Africa each year, including three times more adults than previously thought, Reuters reports. “It is a picture that we have never had before,” WHO Food Safety Director Jorgen Schlundt said.

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CSPI Urges Stronger FDA and Modernized Food Safety Law

December 5, 2007

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>

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Important to Heed Warning Presented by Botulism Recall

July 23, 2007

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>

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New CDC Data Show Increases in i>E.coli/i>, i>Salmonella /i>and i>Vibrio/i>

April 11, 2007

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions latest report shows that infections from E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and Vibrio are all on the rise. E. coli cases reported to CDCs FoodNet rose 50 percent since 2004, and Vibrio, another potentially deadly pathogen in shellfish, rose a whopping 78 percent since FoodNet began (1996-1998).

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New Data Show FDA/EPAs Mercury Advice on Tuna Doesnt Hold Water

July 10, 2006

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>

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Government Testing of Chicken Shows Dramatic Jump in Salmonella in 2005

February 23, 2006

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>USDA test results announced today show that Salmonella rates in chicken increased almost 80 percent since 2000…

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CSPI on Latest Food Bioterrorism Regulation

December 6, 2004

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>Secretary Tommy Thompson is right to think that the food supply isnt as safe as it could be from a terrorist attack…

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CSPI Urges Reforms to Minimize Exposure to BSE, Bush Administration Failed to Deliver on Promises

November 23, 2004

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>In all probability, a small number of BSE-infected animals are circulating in North America, and it is prudent to assume that some are entering the feed and food chain. While consumers risk of contracting the human form of the disease is minuscule, USDA and FDA should nevertheless ….

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CSPI on Bush Administration Broken Promises on Mad Cow Protections

July 8, 2004

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b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>The Bush Administration today broke its promise to institute important new protections for animal feed. Instead of regulations, the agency issued a second Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking–a fancy bureaucratic tool for delay–on the critical issue of the safety of ………

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