Publication Items

Food Deserts: Where The Food Isn't [1]

Areas lacking easy access to affordable staple foods can signal larger long-term problems, including environmental ones. Simple interactive maps can play a key role in engaging your community.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [3]
Food [4]
People & Population [5]
Technology [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Mulls Loosening Limits on Atrazine in Drinking Water [9]

Atrazine, one of the most commonly used pesticides on crops ranging from corn to trees, may not be as dangerous to humans as previously thought.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Food [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Food Terror: Indigestion For Security Experts [12]

Although the US food supply remains among the safest in the world, it also remains a point of vulnerability to terrorist attack.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [3]
Food [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Terrorism Down on the Farm [13]

Amid the torrent of terrorism news, one angle that's been overlooked is agroterrorism -- using biological agents as weapons against crops or livestock.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [10]
Food [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA'S BT Reregistration Decisions Due Soon [14]

During the week of Sept. 24, 2001, EPA is scheduled to issue a final decision on whether to reregister Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) plant pesticide applications for cotton.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [4]
Health [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about EPA'S BT Reregistration Decisions Due Soon [14]
FDA Knew About Mercury in Corn Syrup — And Kept Silent [16]

In spite of one of its own scientists co-authoring a 2005 study finding toxic mercury in high fructose corn syrup, the Food and Drug Administration gave a green light to the corn industry's campaign advertising corn syrup as "natural."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [11]
Food [4]
Government [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Journalist Sues AG Department Over Feedlot 'Phone Book' Secrecy [19]

A freelance journalist is challenging in court the US Department of Agriculture's efforts to keep secret its data on who owns the feedlots Americans can see and smell, but whose pollution the food industry does not want USDA to regulate.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [4]
Pollution [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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USDA May Limit Info On Meat Recalls [21]

Under industry pressure, the U.S. Agriculture Department is considering hiding from consumers information about which retailers might be selling the tainted meat recalled because of health and safety risks.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about USDA May Limit Info On Meat Recalls [21]
"Diagnosis: Mercury, Money, Politics & Poison" [22]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [3]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Food [4]
Government [18]
Health [15]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about "Diagnosis: Mercury, Money, Politics & Poison" [22]
"Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" [27]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [28]
Chemicals [11]
Food [4]
Health [15]
Pollution [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about "Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" [27]

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