The FDA Looks to Crack Down on Manure (Again)

(Hat tip: KimR) - Last week, the FDA announced it would investigate the use of manure and other biological matter. --Manure is animal poop. Rich in nutrients, it's been used by farmers as fertilizer for thousands of years. But the agency is skeptical of the safety of the practice. Read more at Reason Read More......

Sheriff Blocks Feds From Harassing Raw Milk Farmer: “Stem the Tide of Federal Overreach”

(Hat tip: KimR) - While many are still reeling from the outrageous shooting of LaVoy Finicum, and the aftermath of the Oregon standoff and arrest of patriots linked to it, there are other battles against the feds taking place across the country. Much less attention was paid to Sheriff Brad Rogers, of Elkhart County in Indiana, who just successfully concluded his own showdown with federal officials from the FDA. The scenario was quite different, but the principals involved strike a similar chord - burdensome overreach and tyranny on the part of the federal government and its swarm of agents. Read more at SHTF Plan Read More......

FDA orders food manufacturers to stop using trans fat within three years

Artificial trans fat will have to disappear from the American diet, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. --The FDA on Tuesday ruled that trans fat is not "generally recognized as safe" for use in human food. --The department gave food manufacturers three years to remove the partially hydrogenated oils, or PHOs, from their products. The companies can petition the FDA for a special permit to use it, but no PHOs can be added to human food unless otherwise approved by the FDA.

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New Data Counters Half-Baked Claims of Food Safety Crisis

HERITAGE/FOUNDRY, 12/17/2010 - The incidence rate of food-borne illness in the United States is dramatically lower than previously estimated, according to findings reported Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new data thoroughly refute the misleading claims of alarmists advocating for vastly expanding federal regulation of the food supply. Read more at The Foundry... Read More......

WSJ: Breast Cancer and the FDA

WSJ, 12/17/2010 - Breast Cancer and the FDA: The agency's Avastin decision is a tragedy for desperately ill women.

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration moved to revoke its regulatory approval of Avastin for metastatic breast cancer. Withdrawing a cancer treatment is almost never done, and though the decision was expected, that does not make it any less reprehensible.

The FDA said in a statement that it is removing Avastin's breast cancer indication because the biologic does not provide "a sufficient benefit in slowing disease progression to outweigh the significant risk to patients." Ponder that "sufficient." The agency is substituting its own judgments about clinical meaningfulness for those of practicing oncologists and terminally ill cancer patients. Read more at Wall Street Journal/Opinion...

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