Regulatory comments

IATP submitted this comment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about Third Party Certification programs in other countries to ensure food safety. We identified problems in both concept and in relation to other food safety programs, particularly in relation to import re-inspection and product testing.

In the U.S. we are experiencing areas with too much water or outright drought. Each crisis gives us yet another opportunity to examine and challenge the issues we need to find solutions for: unfettered development, water intensive energy production, inefficient agricultural water use.

KAW's recommendations to the Montana Department of Agriculture to include among its certification criteria for Montana Certified Natural Beef a requirement that cattle not be given medically important antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes.

Comment to FDA expressing concerns that the agency is not pursuing the likelihood that U.S. livestock operations are a reservoir for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the FDA is not responding to NARMS data indicating the emergence in the United States of Enterobacteriaceae resistant to cephalosporins.

KAW letter opposing federal preemption clause in draft 2007 Farm Bill

The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed imported from China exposes the inherent weaknesses of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies at the expense of public health.