WASHINGTON: Consumer groups angered by FDA and USDA Inaction on CO-treated meat - (commondreams.org)
June 2, 2008 – 6:28 pmLetters Urge HHS and USDA Secretaries to Stop Deception
WASHINGTON, DC — Declaring the governments two-and-a-half year delay as inexcusable, six of the nations leading consumer groups urged the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture to immediately ban the deceptive and potentially unsafe use of carbon monoxide (CO) in case-ready meat packaging pending a thorough legal and scientific review. No formal review, which is required by law for food additives and substances that impart color to foods appearance, has ever been conducted on meat packaged with carbon monoxide.
The six groups Food and Water Watch, the Consumer Federation of America, Safe Tables Our Priority, Consumers Union, National Consumers League and the Government Accountability Project sent letters to Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt and Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer urging their departments agencies to act to address the use of CO in meat packaging once […]
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