Via FDA.gov AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 3, 2016) – In response to Grassfields Cheese LLC’s organic cheese recall, Whole Foods Market is voluntarily recalling the product from select stores in the Midwest and South out of an abundance of caution. Grassfields Cheese issued the recall due to possible contamination with Shiga toxin-producingE. coli (STEC), a bacteria […]
Hundreds of Tons of Roudup Used on Public Wild Lands
There’s a general perception that when in the “wild,” on public or federal lands, the land is more pure and safe from chemical pollutants like the widely-used Monsanto herbicide Roudup. A new study University of Montana researchers are giving the public its first look at the widespread use of herbicides on federal and tribal land […]
Farmer Sentenced to Prison for Organic Fraud
Bernard Saul, 58, of Bliss, Idaho, the owner of Saul Farms, was sentenced June 7, 2016 by the United States District Court to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the crimes of wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. […]
Organic Baby Formula Recalled
Nature’s One of Lewis Center, OH is voluntarily recalling three lots of PediaSmart®Dairy Vanilla complete nutrition beverage powder packaged in 12.7 ounce cans, which bear the lot numbers located on the bottom of the can. This product is generally consumed by individuals between the ages of 13 months – 13 years old. The result of […]
Benefits of GMO Golden Rice Questioned
Heralded on the cover of Time magazine in 2000 as a genetically modified (GMO) crop with the potential to save millions of lives in the Third World, Golden Rice is still years away from field introduction and even then, may fall short of lofty health benefits still cited regularly by GMO advocates, suggests a new […]