Publication Items

Food Deserts: Where The Food Isn't

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
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer
Food
People & Population
Technology
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about Food Deserts: Where The Food Isn't
EPA Mulls Loosening Limits on Atrazine in Drinking Water

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
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture
Chemicals
Food
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about EPA Mulls Loosening Limits on Atrazine in Drinking Water
Food Terror: Indigestion For Security Experts

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
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer
Food
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about Food Terror: Indigestion For Security Experts
Terrorism Down on the Farm

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
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture
Food
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about Terrorism Down on the Farm
EPA'S BT Reregistration Decisions Due Soon

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
Topics on the Beat:
Food
Health
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about EPA'S BT Reregistration Decisions Due Soon
FDA Knew About Mercury in Corn Syrup — And Kept Silent

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
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Food
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about FDA Knew About Mercury in Corn Syrup — And Kept Silent
Journalist Sues AG Department Over Feedlot 'Phone Book' Secrecy

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
Topics on the Beat:
Food
Pollution
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about Journalist Sues AG Department Over Feedlot 'Phone Book' Secrecy
USDA May Limit Info On Meat Recalls

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
Topics on the Beat:
Food
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about USDA May Limit Info On Meat Recalls
"Diagnosis: Mercury, Money, Politics & Poison"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Consumer
Fish & Fisheries
Food
Government
Health
Laws & Regulations
Pollution
Water & Oceans
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about "Diagnosis: Mercury, Money, Politics & Poison"
"Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Air
Chemicals
Food
Health
Pollution
Visibility:
Public
- Read more about "Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children"

Pages

Browse Publications

Advertisement

Advertise with SEJ