USA Food Quality, Awareness, and Activism

A Santa Cruz jury has awarded $1 million to Jacobs Farm, an organic farm whose edible herbs were contaminated by pesticides applied to vegetables on nearby farms. Organophosphate pesticides evaporated after application and were then blown by wind onto the organic herbs, making it impossible for...  

Controlling deadly malaria has depended on expensive and toxic pesticides, but alternatives now exist.  

Lawyers for Jacobs Farm / Del Cabo said today that organophosphate pesticides evaporating after application and then blowing onto the organic herbs made it ...  

A jury has awarded $1 million to an organic farm in Santa Cruz whose edible herbs were contaminated by pesticides sprayed on nearby farmlands. ...  

Our world seems to be increasingly toxic.  And while I feel rather confident that switching to a vegan diet has eliminated the most harmful offenders from my daily intake, I am aware that pesticides are something I can’t escape in my every day life.  I recently came across a website that’s worth...  

Food safety officials are scrambling to determine the extent to which New Zealand-made foods have been contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine which has poisoned thousands of Chinese babies.  

By DAVID BARBOZA BEIJING — Two weeks after China recalled infant milk formula because of contamination by an industrial chemical, foods tainted with that ...  

By Joe Watson Patricia Brunko, the head of the unit responsible for chemicals, contaminants and pesticides, has hit back at claims in the UK that the ...  

The NDP put forward a motion to ban pesticides. The Bloc voted against it, they said a ban on pesticides was a provincial matter - as if pesticides dumped ...  

If the EU pesticides review goes through as it currently stands, food prices will at worst more than double, according to a new industry-funded impact ...  

WITH food prices going up faster than New York  skyscrapers, anyone who can afford to buy organic everything - probably has a personal assistant doing their shopping for them. The rest of us face difficult decisions every time we push a cart. Prevention's the Healthy Cook: The...  

By Ibrahim Kasita ORGANIC cotton farmers in Pader and Kitgum are crying foul over organic pesticides distributed by Dunavant, saying the pesticides are not ...  

Farmers consider pesticides as essential to protect crops from insects, rodents and fungi. Despite the fact that pesticides have long been regulated in most ...  

For every 11500 plants, Agent Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Game estimates 1500 pounds of fertilizers and pesticides have been used. ...  

(For years, proponents of organic food have claimed that pesticides were responsible.) July 24. An investigation by WJLA, a Washington DC TV station, ...