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| Federal Web site exposed private data |
| Published: April 22, 2007, 3:20 am |
| Tags: Federal, Websites, Ssn, Department, Social, Security, Agriculture |
| 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week.Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected.The security breach was only noticed last week and promptly closed, the Agriculture Department and Census Bureau announced Friday.The |
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| Cream recall in California--is it necessary? |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 8:12 am |
| Tags: California Department Of Food Agriculture, Milk Recall, Organic Pastures, Raw Milk, Rawmilk, The Complete Patient |
| Last Friday the California Department of Food and Agriculture issued a recall of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. cream despite the fact that there are no reported incidents of illness linked to that product at this time. This is not the first time that state health officials have recalled Organic Pastures products. A year ago to the month they |
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| U.S. to Warn Sooner About Tainted Meat |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: U S, Warn, Sooner, About, Tainted, Meat, U S Department Of Agriculture, Richard Raymond, Scott P Schlesinger, Florida, David Goldman, Kis Robertson, Michele Williams, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, Food Safety Inspection Service, Office Of Public Health Scie |
| The Agriculture Department will warn the public more quickly about contaminated meat in the future, officials said yesterday as they sought to quell criticism of an 18-day delay in seeking the recall of millions of pounds of tainted ground beef. |
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| Probe Into Tainted Rice Ends |
| Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Probe, Into, Tainted, Rice, Ends, Bayer Ag, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, United States, Bayer Cropscience Ag, U S Department Of Agriculture, Cindy Smith, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Brussels, Margaret Mellon, Research Triangle Park, European Commission, Europe |
| More than 14 months after the Agriculture Department began an investigation into how the U.S. supply of long-grain rice became tainted with an unapproved genetically engineered variety -- an event that continues to disrupt U.S. exports -- the government announced yesterday that it could not figure... |
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| Probe Into Tainted Rice Ends |
| Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Probe, Into, Tainted, Rice, Ends, Bayer Ag, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, United States, Bayer Cropscience Ag, U S Department Of Agriculture, Cindy Smith, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Brussels, Margaret Mellon, Research Triangle Park, E U S European Commission |
| More than 14 months after the Agriculture Department began an investigation into how the U.S. supply of long-grain rice became tainted with an unapproved genetically engineered variety -- an event that continues to disrupt U.S. exports -- the government announced yesterday that it could not figure... |
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| Ground Beef Recall Is End of Meat Company |
| Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Ground, Beef, Recall, End, Meat, Company, U S Department Of Agriculture, Vivian Quinones, William D Marler, Anthony L D Urso, Antigua Barbuda, New Jersey, Frozen Food Age Magazine, Giant Food Llc, Hudson Foods, Strategic Investments Amp Holdings Inc, The Associated Pr |
| A week after announcing one of the largest meat recalls ever, Topps Meat has gone out of business. |
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| New Insights From Creatures' Perspective |
| Published: October 29, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: New, Insights, From, Creatures, Perspective, Greg Marshall, John Calambokidis, U S National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, Jeffrey A Seminoff, Stewart Breck, National Geographic Society, U S Department Of Agriculture, Apple Iphone, Bahia, Baja California, Calif |
| Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belize studying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with a remora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, who was then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that if a camera could be attached... |
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| Bush Nominates Agriculture Secretary |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Bush, Nominates, Agriculture, Secretary, Edward T Schafer, George W Bush, North Dakota, United States, Nebraska, Chesapeake Bay, Chuck Hagel, Mike Johanns, The White House, Tom Harkin, U S Department Of Agriculture |
| President Bush yesterday nominated Edward T. Schafer, who served two terms as governor of North Dakota, to head the Department of Agriculture, an agency with a broad mandate including administration of the federal food stamp program, aiding economic development in rural America and enhancing food... |
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| Bush Nominates Agriculture Secretary |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Bush, Nominates, Agriculture, Secretary, Edward T Schafer, George W Bush, North Dakota, United States, Nebraska, Chesapeake Bay, Chuck Hagel, Mike Johanns, The White House, Tom Harkin, U S Department Of Agriculture |
| President Bush yesterday nominated Edward T. Schafer, who served two terms as governor of North Dakota, to head the Department of Agriculture, an agency with a broad mandate including administration of the federal food stamp program, aiding economic development in rural America and enhancing food... |
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| Crying Foul in Debate Over 'Natural' Chicken |
| Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Crying, Foul, Debate, Over, Natural, Chicken, Pilgrim S Pride Corporation, Tyson Foods Inc, U S Department Of Agriculture, United States, Minnesota, Hormel Foods Corporation, Amanda Eamich, Dennis Cardoza, Ray Atkinson, California, Texas, Bloomberg Lp, Sanderson Farms I |
| Pumped up saltwater chickens are on the regulatory menu in Washington as advocates for "natural" food demand labels that reflect what the product actually contains. |
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| Meat Treatment Got Approval Despite Safety Concerns |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Meat, Treatment, Got, Approval, Despite, Safety, Concerns, Hormel Foods Corporation, U S Department Of Agriculture, Bart Stupak, Food And Drug Administration, Jeffrey Ettinger, Minnesota, Giant Food Llc, Safeway Inc, Stop Amp Shop Supermarket Company, Tyson Foods Inc, Dav |
| The Agriculture Department in 2004 gave the green light to using carbon monoxide gas to keep older cuts of meat looking red and fresh, even though scientists at the two companies promoting the technology had questioned the validity of their own safety tests, congressional investigators revealed... |
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| Meat Treatment Got Approval Despite Safety Concerns |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Meat, Treatment, Got, Approval, Despite, Safety, Concerns, Hormel Foods Corporation, U S Department Of Agriculture, Bart Stupak, Food And Drug Administration, Jeffrey Ettinger, Minnesota, Giant Food Llc, Safeway Inc, Stop Amp Shop Supermarket Company, Tyson Foods Inc, Dav |
| The Agriculture Department in 2004 gave the green light to using carbon monoxide gas to keep older cuts of meat looking red and fresh, even though scientists at the two companies promoting the technology had questioned the validity of their own safety tests, congressional investigators revealed y... |
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| At 19 Agencies, They're Keeping It Clean |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Agencies, They Re, Keeping, Clean, Danny Werfel, Medicaid, Medicare, Nasa, U S Department Of Agriculture, U S Department Of State, U S General Services Administration, U S Office Of Management And Budget |
| The government has produced a bit of good cheer for the holiday season. |
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| At 19 Agencies, They're Keeping It Clean |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Agencies, They Re, Keeping, Clean, Danny Werfel, Medicaid, Medicare, Nasa, U S Department Of Agriculture, U S Department Of State, U S General Services Administration, U S Office Of Management And Budget |
| The government has produced a bit of good cheer for the holiday season. |
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| The USDA's Losing Effort |
| Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: The, Usda S, Losing, Effort, U S Department Of Agriculture, Debbie Livingston, Delbert Bland, Maine, Georgia, Michael W Aube, United States, Jimmy Carter, Thomas C Dorr, U S Department Of Justice, Florida, Aztec Environmental Inc, Milford, Myrtle Beach, Panama City, Smithfi |
| Under a program to create jobs in rural America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed $1.6 million in loans to Aztec Environmental Inc., an asbestos-removal company in Panama City, Fla. |
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