Food Supply stories:
US Senate panel passes food safety reform bill
Nov 18th, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee passed legislation on Wednesday that would increase government oversight of the U.S. food supply, which has been battered by...
Feds: Kuwaiti company conspired to defarud US, tried to overcharge for food used for troops
Nov 16th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
ATLANTA (AP) - A Kuwaiti company has been charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. in connection with multibillion-dollar contracts to feed American troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan. Federal prosecutors said Monday that Public Warehousing Co...
FDA Issues 2009 FDA Food Code
Nov 9th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
Contact: Michael Herndon of the FDA, +1-301-796-4673, Michael.Herndon@fda.hhs.gov Updated code is a model for state, city, county, tribal, territorial agencies and industry. SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov...
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
Oct 23rd, 2009 - Yahoo! News
TOPEKA, Kan. – Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.
In Iowa stops, Vilsack touts local food production, state enforcement of finance regulations
Oct 13th, 2009 - dailypress
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack returned to Iowa on Tuesday to promote locally grown food and urge that states be given a key role in tighter regulation of the financial services industry. Vilsack...



